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Webster 1913 Edition

Dulia

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Du-li′a

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Noun.
[LL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] servitude, fr. [GREEK] slave.]
(R. C. Ch.)
An inferior kind of veneration or worship, given to the angels and saints as the servants of God.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dulia

DULIA

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Noun.
[Gr., service.] An inferior kind of worship or adoration. [Not an English word.]

Definition 2024

dulia

dulia

English

Noun

dulia ‎(usually uncountable, plural dulias)

  1. The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
      There were even moments when, looking into her cheval-glass, she cried out against that arrangement in comely lines and tints which got for her the dulia she delighted in.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin dulia, from Ancient Greek δουλεία ‎(douleía, “slavery”), from δοῦλος ‎(doûlos, “slave”).

Noun

dulia f ‎(plural dulie)

  1. dulia

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Etymology

From Latin dulia, from Ancient Greek δουλεία ‎(douleía, “slavery”), from δοῦλος ‎(doûlos, “slave”).

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