Meanings of devotional spirit in English

Mr. Pierson was characterized by a strong devotional spirit, which finally became highly fanatical.

There are very few worlds where the devotional spirit has reached a higher level than in Plasden.

The service she had attended hitherto was partly the creation of her own earnest and devotional spirit.

Energy in the world of modern politics is not the product of the devotional spirit dominant on the continent of Europe.

He talked enthusiastically of the music at the Oratory, and said charming things about the connection between incense and the devotional spirit.

The rich have more ceremony, while the labourer enjoys more richly, more free from restraint, the warm outpourings of a devotional spirit.

But we must not hastily conclude from this that the nobler characters of the building have at present any influence in fostering a devotional spirit.

Hardly any thing can be more touching than the following stanzas, for instance, whether as they describe human interests, or breathe a lofty devotional spirit.

His little books are saturated with a devotional spirit rising into words like these: "Let my love rest in nothing short of thee, O God!"