different between devotion vs godliness

English

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Etymology

From Old French devocion, from Latin d?v?ti?, from d?v?tum +? -tio, from the supine of d?vove? (“vow, devote”); equivalent to devote +? -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??v????n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d??vo???n/

Noun

devotion (usually uncountable, plural devotions)

1. (uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.
2. (uncountable) Feeling of strong or fervent affection; dedication
3. (uncountable) Religious veneration, zeal, or piety.
4. (countable, ecclesiastical) A prayer (often found in the plural)
5. (in the plural, obsolete) Religious offerings; alms.

Translations

Middle French

Noun

devotion f (plural devotions)

1. devotion (quality of being devoted)

English

Etymology

godly +? -ness

Noun

godliness (countable and uncountable, plural godlinesses)

1. The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teachings of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.
   • 1562, The Thirty-Nine Articles, Point 32:

     Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God's laws either to vow the estate of single life or to abstain from marriage. Therefore it is lawful also for them, as for all other Christian men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

   • 1604, Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 2:

     Nay, but he prated,

     And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms

     Against your honour

     That, with the little godliness I have,

     I did full hard forbear him.

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See also

• deity

Anagrams

• dogliness