doxology

American  

[dok-sol-uh-jee] / dɒkˈsɒl ə dʒi /

noun

plural

doxologies

1. a hymn or form of words containing an ascription of praise to God.

2. the Doxology, the metrical formula beginning “Praise God from whom all blessings flow.”

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doxology British  

/ ˌdɒksəˈlɒdʒɪkəl, dɒkˈsɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. a hymn, verse, or form of words in Christian liturgy glorifying God

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Other Word Forms

• doxological adjective
• doxologically adverb

Etymology

Origin of doxology

1640–50; < Medieval Latin doxologia < Greek, equivalent to doxo- (combining form of dóxa honor, glory) + -logia -logy

Example Sentences

Together, they are trying to understand why the doxology, always sung “in one way and one way only” suddenly has been “pepped up” with an energetic organ accompaniment.

From Los Angeles Times

“God, hear our prayer,” the kayakers chorused before joining in the Lord’s Prayer and doxology.

From Washington Post

The nondenominational New Life Church in Colorado Springs, for example, which has hosted prosperity-gospel preachers, was, in pre-pandemic times, concluding some of its services with an Anglican hymn to the Trinity known as a doxology.

From New York Times

Photograph: Screenshot Pope Francis sings the doxology: “Through him and with him and in him”.

From The Guardian

The pilgrim band of colonists sang the doxology with bowed heads.

From Project Gutenberg