He took particular pleasure in works of devout Christian speculation, without, however, neglecting a due proportion of strictly devotional literature.

The whole of the worshippers at the lower end seem a pre-eminently devotional lot.

This is an experience, not common to all mystics, but very marked in some, who, like St John of the Cross and Madame Guyon, are intensely devotional and ecstatic.

Sister Madeline was not at all the ideal sister, being tall and dark, and with nothing peculiarly devotional or pensive in her cast of feature.

He was profoundly devotional as well as logical, and original as he was learned.

The Assumption, like the Annunciation, the Nativity, and other historical themes, may, through ideal accessories, assume a purely devotional form.