Devotion vs Desire - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act or state of devoting or being devoted.
(uncountable) Feeling of strong or fervent affection; dedication
(uncountable) Religious veneration, zeal, or piety.
(countable, ecclesiastical) A prayer (often found in the plural)
To want; to wish for earnestly.
* Bible, Exodus xxxiv. 24
* Tennyson
To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts XIII:
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 To want emotionally or sexually.
To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
* Bible, 2 Kings iv. 28
* Shakespeare
To require; to demand; to claim.
* Spenser
To miss; to regret.
* Jeremy Taylor
(countable) Someone or something wished for.
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, title= (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.
(uncountable) Motivation.
(uncountable) The feeling of desire.
In uncountable terms the difference between devotion and desire
is that devotion is religious veneration, zeal, or piety while desire is the feeling of desire.As a verb desire is
to want; to wish for earnestly.devotion
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("devotion on Wikiquote")Noun
(en-noun)desire
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Verb
(desir)- Neither shall any man desire thy land.
- Ye desire your child to live.
- And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
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- Then she said, Did I desire a son of my lord?
- Desire him to go in; trouble him no more.
- A doleful case desires a doleful song.
- She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.
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(en-noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].}}