Other forms: devotions
Devotion is deep loyal love that gives without counting the cost. Her devotion to the children, absolute devotion, devotion to duty.
It implies long service rather than strong feeling in a moment. In religion, devotion means worship and religious practice, and devotions in the plural are prayers. Devotion to duty is a fixed phrase in citations and obituaries. Note devoted, which is the everyday adjective — a devoted husband, devoted to her garden; and devotee, meaning an enthusiastic follower of anything.
1noundevotionDeep loyal love that gives without counting the cost.
“Her devotion to the place lasted about fifty years.”
2nounreligiousReligious worship and practice.
“His devotions took about an hour every morning.”
devotion is a loyal giving.
Latin devotio comes from devovere — de-, away, plus vovere, to vow. A devotion was originally a vow made to a god, and the same vovere gives vow, vote and votive.
Latin
dēvōtiō
Old French
devocion
English, today
devotion
Built from
From Old French devocion, from Latin dēvōtiō, from dēvōtum + tio, from the supine of dēvoveō (“vow, devote”); equivalent to devote + ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA