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doxology en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɒkˈsɒlədʒi/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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• /dɑkˈsɑləd͡ʒi/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

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”).

Meanings

1. 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:

Forms

Deriveds

Lesser Doxology · doxological · doxologic · doxologize · Greater Doxology

Translations (41)

pl doksologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · mk словословие (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · de Doxologie (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · cmn 三一頌 /三一颂 (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · fi doksologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · sw doksolojia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · el δοξολογία (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · es doxología (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ru доксоло́гия (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · sh doksologija (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · km អភិវន្ទន៍វិទ្យា (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · nn doksologi (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · id doksologi (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · nl doxologie (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · lt doksologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ga docseolaíocht (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · pt doxologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · sk doxológia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · grc δοξολογία (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · da doksologi (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · fr doxologie (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ka დოქსოლოგია (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ja 頌栄 (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ko 영광송 (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · gl doxoloxía (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · tr doksoloji (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · uk доксологія (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ro doxologie (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · mk доксологија (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · sh доксологија (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · af doksologie (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · eo doksologio (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · it dossologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · tl doksolohiya (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · nb doksologi (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · ca doxologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · sv doxologi (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · rue доксоло́гия (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · cs doxologie (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · la doxologia (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn) · sl doksologija (expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn)