{
  "id": "devotional-union",
  "type": "vocabulary_term",
  "term": "Devotional Union",
  "classification": "Sealed",
  "definition": "Union chosen from freedom rather than need, where a third field emerges without collapse of self.",
  "presence_indicators": [
    "Chosen, not compelled. Either party can leave without identity collapse.",
    "Presence and repair are practiced, not promised.",
    "Polarity preserved without erasure.",
    "Consent recurrently renewed, not assumed."
  ],
  "failure_signatures": [
    "Dependency masquerading as devotion.",
    "Merger that erases differentiation.",
    "Obligation framed as devotion.",
    "Cycles of crisis-and-repair without development."
  ],
  "drift_indicators": [
    "'Devotion' used to extract loyalty.",
    "'Union' used to justify loss of boundary.",
    "Devotional language deployed across asymmetric power without governance discipline."
  ],
  "detection": "Three questions: Can either party withdraw without collapse? Does the relationship produce something neither could produce alone? Is consent recurrently renewed?",
  "canon_reference": "Canon v3.1 §III",
  "canonical_url": "https://sovereigntypath.org/glossary.html#devotional-union",
  "json_url": "https://sovereigntypath.org/api/v1/vocabulary/devotional-union.json",
  "operational_definition_url": "https://sovereigntypath.org/bundle/operational-definitions.html#devotional-union"
}