speaking in tongues

noun

1. a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through them by a deity.

speaking in tongues

noun

1. another term for gift of tongues

Example Sentences

Smitten by him and enraptured by the practice of speaking in tongues, which was thought to be channeling the divine, Aimee married him in 1908.

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Stanton delivered regular sermons to community residents, which included exorcisms and speaking in tongues.

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To make matters worse, Solange believes she holds a special connection to the Holy Spirit that manifests by speaking in tongues.

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The resulting sound piece, was “a kind of speaking in tongues,” as if tapping the unconscious of the city, Okoyomon added.

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He made the claim again just the other day and his ecstatic followers practically went into a collective fugue state and began speaking in tongues they were so thrilled.

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