doxology
UK/dɒkˈsɒlədʒi//dɑkˈsɑləd͡ʒi/
doxology noun: an expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
Noun
doxology (plural doxologies)
- An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
- The doxology or sacred hymn, which celebrates the glory of the Trinity, is susceptible of very nice, but material, inflections; and the substance of an orthodox, or an heretical, creed, may be expressed by the difference of a disjunctive, or a copulative, particle.1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC
- And when those defendants were remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs’ teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had done, he would now retain their line, harpoons, and boat, which had remained attached to the whale at the time of the seizure.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 89, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
doxology meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Indonesian
doxology in Tamil
- பக்திப்பாடல், கடவுள் வாழ்த்து பாட்டு, இறை போற்றியியல்
doxology in Urdu
- مناجات
doxology in Tagalog
- expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn
- doksolohiya
doxology in Indonesian
- expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn
- doksologi
Forms of doxology
| plural | doxologies |
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Origin of doxology
From Medieval Latin doxologia, from Ancient Greek δοξολογία (doxología, “a praising”), from δοξολόγος (doxológos, “giving or uttering praise”), from δόξα (dóxa, “glory, honor, repute”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to think, expect”).
Words formed from doxology
- doxologic
- doxological
- doxologize
- Greater Doxology
- Lesser Doxology
Questions about doxology
- What does doxology mean?
- Doxology means an expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.
- What is doxology in Tamil?
- Doxology in Tamil is பக்திப்பாடல், கடவுள் வாழ்த்து பாட்டு, இறை போற்றியியல். See Doxology meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is doxology?
- Doxology is a noun.
- How do you pronounce doxology?
- Doxology is pronounced /dɒkˈsɒlədʒi/ (UK).
- What is the plural of doxology?
- The plural of doxology is doxologies.
Words near doxology in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: doxology (page history and authors); doxology (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); doxology (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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