gift of tongues

noun

1. speaking in tongues.

gift of tongues

noun

1. an utterance, partly or wholly unintelligible, believed by some to be produced under the influence of ecstatic religious emotion and conceived to be a manifestation of the Holy Ghost: practised in certain Christian churches, usually called Pentecostal Also calledglossolalia

Word History and Origins

Origin of gift of tongues¹

First recorded in 1550–60