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Origin of devotional
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In return, he left us a sublime body of work, one that languished in astonishing critical neglect until the mid-19th and early-20th centuries, the result of a dwindling taste for monastic and devotional art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
He also composed albums based on ancient Tamil literature and devotional works, including Thiruvasagam.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
A policy argument has a limited shelf life; a devotional or memoir can sell indefinitely.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2026
Those bearing the structures often gyrate to the beat provided by percussionists alongside religious chants and devotional folk songs.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
Aquinas Christianized Ad Herennium, partly misunderstood it—misreading “solitude” for “solicitude,” thus accidentally discovering a devotional aspect in it—and became the patron saint of medieval mnemotechnics.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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