Blind devotion to one's lord and parents
steadfast in purpose or devotion or affection.
(used of persons) dependable in devotion or allegiance or affection.
Their slavish devotion to the leader is unhealthy.
(used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful.
Whereas he had initially discouraged pilgrimages to Thomas’s tomb, from 1174 on he led the devotion.
Everybody spoke in praise of her devotion to the cause of education.
Reading of her experience and devotion to her son, Ronan, has been sobering but surprisingly uplifting.
Yes, devotion; for that is, I believe, the phrase for hopeful ambition.
He's as bitter as gall at your desertion and its consequences: don't expect thanks for this noble devotion.
Steve Jobs's magic was to marry clever code with a fanatical devotion to aesthetics, rare in the tech world.
Liberal critics have long asserted that dogmatic devotion to market forces has skewed American society toward those of greatest means.
Somehow their expressions - of desire, irritation, indifference, devotion and anxiety, all arranged in delicate counterpoint - achieve an otherworldly eloquence.
For mothers, it means devotion as dad is going to be around to help look after the kids.
Western reporters in Sirte say its people's declarations of devotion to the colonel and their willingness to fight for what they have are sincere.
And in France, Nicolas Sarkozy has been engaged in an ongoing debate about Gallic values, particularly the country's devotion to secularism.
The authors of this book convey the love and exasperation Theo felt for his needy, demanding brother and how fearful Vincent was of losing Theo’s devotion.
Both their pain and their permanence contribute to the power of the tattoos, as advertisement of a member's true devotion to their syndicate.
It coincides with the birthday of 4th century BC philosopher Mencius, whose mother has long been considered the epitome of maternal devotion and love.
While at first Prince Albert was unpopular in some circles because he was German, he came to be admired for his honesty, diligence, and his devotion to his family.
Though he lived halfway across the world, he was a Queens boy with an unshakeable devotion to remnants of his New York boyhood and, thanks to his stint in Rome, top-end Italian food.
Some investors value the hardware facilities devotion of the cabaret very much, think the hardware is a kind of advantage of the outstanding oneself, so can draw on a source.
And couples who've been together a long time and wish to get back their romantic edge should know it is an attainable goal that, like most good things in life, requires energy and devotion.
Germany is only the highest-profile euro country to oppose anything that threatens its financial sovereignty and to tout the near-sacred devotion of its parliament to budget discipline.
He was a total abstainer and a non-smoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.
For my self, not only for my obedience, but my particular Genius, I do embrace it: for even that vulgar and Tavern-Musick, which makes one man merry, another mad, strikes in me a deep fit of devotion, and a profound contemplation of the First Composer.
