speaking in tongues
Americannoun
noun
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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.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2025
Stanton delivered regular sermons to community residents, which included exorcisms and speaking in tongues.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024
Neo-Charismatic Pentecostals, or Neo-Pentecostals, put an emphasis very much on the gifts of the Spirit: speaking in tongues, miracles, prophecy, things like that.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2024
Occasionally an insistent, "Ah-shondadal-i!" from an intercessor speaking in tongues rode toward us on a breeze.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2022
Much of the rest of it began to come to me in bursts of understanding, as if Patrice Lumumba were speaking in tongues and my ears had been blessed by the same stroke of grace.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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