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Doxology
//dɒkˈsɒlədʒi// noun
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Noun
- 1 An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
"The doxology or sacred hymn, which celebrates the glory of the Trinity, is susceptible of very nice, but material, inflections; and the substance of an orthodox, or an heretical, creed, may be expressed by the difference of a disjunctive, or a copulative, particle."
- 2 a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God wordnet
Etymology
From Medieval Latin doxologia, from Ancient Greek δοξολογία (doxología, “a praising”), from δοξολόγος (doxológos, “giving or uttering praise”), from δόξα (dóxa, “glory, honor, repute”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, expect”).
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