indevotion

The most likely reconstruction -- indevotion -- has been included in the main text.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

But far more lamentable is the state of a soul ungrateful to her Saviour, who goes backward step by step, withdrawing herself from God's love by certain degrees of indevotion and disloyalty, till at length, having quite forsaken it, she is left in the horrible obscurity of perdition.

Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884

I became addicted to lying, peevishness and indevotion, passing whole days without thinking on God; though He watched continually over me, as the sequel will manifest.

Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880

The spark of divine grace was almost extinguished in me, and I fell into a state of indifference and indevotion, though I still carefully kept up outside appearances.

Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880

Let him resolve, then, that whatever his aridity and sense of indevotion may be, he will never let himself sink utterly under his cross.

Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings Alexander Whyte 1878

If it be indulged faults, or favoured infirmities, or conscious omissions, or known unfairness with their conscience, or unresisted temptation, or willing indevotion, then let them confess it simply and clearly at the foot of the cross.

Sermons. Volume The Fourth. 1808-1892 1850

Over-activity often leads to indevotion, and busy care about others to forgetfulness of our own soul.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

They complain of indevotion, of inability to pray, or to fix their minds.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

With shorter and less frequent services they might have gone on for ever without finding out their secret indevotion; and all the while it would be no less real, though undiscovered.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848

And the use we should make of the offices of the Church when we cannot follow them is, to chastise our indevotion by them, and to strengthen the habits of silence, reverence, and attention, which are the basis of a devout spirit.

Sermons. Volume the Second. 1808-1892 1848