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dulia
[ doo-lahy-uh, dyoo- ]
noun
- veneration and invocation given to saints as the servants of God.
dulia
/ ˈdjuːlɪə /
noun
- the veneration accorded to saints in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Churches, as contrasted with hyperdulia and latria
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of dulia1
Example Sentences
Russian swimmer Dulia Efimova, who won her appeal against a doping ban only last Friday, has been booed every time she stepped on to the pool deck and broke down in tears after taking home the 100 meters breaststroke silver medal on Monday.
Latria, lā-trī′a, n. the kind of supreme worship lawfully offered to God alone—opposed to Dulia, that given to saints and angels, and to Hyperdulia, that given to the Virgin.
I find it difficult to reconcile the sublime and enrapt devotion to God which inspires them, with the minute rules of our order, the details of scholastic casuistry, and the precise directions as to the measure of worship and honour, Dulia, Hyperdulia, and Latria to be paid to the various orders of heavenly beings, which make prayer often seem as perplexing to me as the ceremonial of the imperial court would to a peasant of the Thuringian forest.
The lowest degree is the dulia, which is given to saints and angels.
So much so, indeed, that when we have paid a hundred thousand crowns to Rome, to give them a saint's brevet, we adore them with the worship of "dulia."
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