as in religious
of, relating to, or used in the practice or worship services of a religion
a religious bookstore with an extensive stock of devotional literature
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Recent Examples of devotional
In a portrait from 1928, a Puerto Rican woman holds a devotional painting of the Virgin Mary and child.
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Damaly Gonzalez, ARTnews.com, 26 Nov. 2024
More psychological study than devotional image, this work does not invite veneration so much as reflection on the actors’ motivations, anticipating later definitions of painting as a medium for pleasurable (rather than purposeful) contemplation.
—Christian K. Kleinbub, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2024
His other works further reclaim history through white-washed portraits of Black Civil War soldiers, collages that place Black people’s faces in confrontation with slave-holding white figures, and devotional scenes that refigure Black people into Biblical text.
—Robert Daniels, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
Flatscreen videos employed imagery related to medieval, Renaissance and Baroque devotional paintings.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2024
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Sharia, or Islamic religious law, as interpreted by the government considers conversion from Islam apostasy, a crime punishable by death, according to the U.S. State Department.—
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The pork dumplings in chili oil are truly a religious experience.—
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The tribe argues it wasn't adequately consulted in the federal planning process, that construction crosses sacred sites and that the pipeline poses a pollution risk to its water supply.—
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His verses evoke sacred rivers, fertile grounds and gardens bright with sinuous rills—a lyrical world beyond the inauspicious reality of its start-point.—
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With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.—
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Cambodia’s Art Come Home: Foreign institutions and collectors are returning artifacts with deep spiritual meaning.—
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Mardi Gras is truly a global phenomenon and every celebration is different, even if they are all tied to the liturgical calendar and the same principal of wild revelry.—
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Many of those who expressed the greatest outrage at these liturgical restrictions are part of or allied with camps on the Catholic right crusading against liberalism in secular society and government.—
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“Devotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/devotional. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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