Literary notes about dilection (AI summary)
In literary and theological contexts, "dilection" is often portrayed as a nuanced form of love—sometimes synonymous with intellectual affection and at other times indicating a more selective or cherished regard. Authors have observed that in certain intellectual or spiritual realms, love and dilection are seemingly identical in nature [1, 2], while in other instances, every act of dilection is subsumed under love, yet not every manifestation of love qualifies as dilection [3, 4]. The term is also employed to express a deep, devoted attachment, whether it be the endearment found in a cherished name [5] or the divine favor attributed to holy figures [6, 7].
- Yet in the intellectual faculty love is the same as dilection.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint - 1: Dionysius is speaking of love and dilection, in so far as they are in the intellectual appetite; for thus love is the same as dilection.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint - For love has a wider signification than the others, since every dilection or charity is love, but not vice versa.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint - (3) Whether love is the same as dilection?
— from Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint - Oh, it is a sweet name and full of dilection, the name of brother."
— from Some Noble Sisters by Edmund Lee - The first are, as we have said, devoted to the love of a mortal object; the second to a divine dilection.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various - Nom. iv) that "some holy men have held that love means something more Godlike than dilection does."
— from Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae)From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
