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Definition of glossolalia in English: glossolalianoun ˌɡlɒsəˈleɪlɪə mass nounThe phenomenon of (apparently) speaking in an unknown language, especially in religious worship. It is practised especially by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians. Example sentencesExamples - The soundtrack combines Pentecostal glossolalia (speaking in tongues) with recordings of unrestrained laughter.
- Some Christian services include glossolalia, spirit possession, and faith healing.
- In charismatic Christian communities glossolalia is sacred and referred to as ‘speaking in tongues’ or having ‘the gift of tongues.’
- At other times, dozens of them are laid on top of each other, creating not a rational counterpoint but instead the heady glossolalia of nature.
- The speaker's words mirror that disorder, the inability to sustain coherent thought, dwindling to glossolalia.
- The third symptom, glossolalia, was observed in two of the orderlies and one physician, who were admitted over the course of the evening.
- Pentecostalism takes its name from its central tenet of baptism in the Spirit and the associated experience of speaking in tongues or glossolalia.
Derivatives adjective The issue largely depends on whether the oracle normally gave her responses in glossolalic or in intelligible speech. Example sentencesExamples - The passage is a scathing criticism of the pentecostalist view of the glossolalic utterance.
- It's definitely music, although occasionally glossolalic.
- Thus glossolalic speech tends to resemble the early speech qualities of young children before they organize all the various parts of the adult language.
- As implied by the glossolalic repetition of ‘ode’ in the title, the book's labor is measured in productive juxtapositions; its ambition is to turn cramming into singing.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek glōssa 'language, tongue' + lalia 'speech'. Definition of glossolalia in US English: glossolalianoun The phenomenon of (apparently) speaking in an unknown language, especially in religious worship. It is practiced especially by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians. Example sentencesExamples - The speaker's words mirror that disorder, the inability to sustain coherent thought, dwindling to glossolalia.
- The soundtrack combines Pentecostal glossolalia (speaking in tongues) with recordings of unrestrained laughter.
- Pentecostalism takes its name from its central tenet of baptism in the Spirit and the associated experience of speaking in tongues or glossolalia.
- At other times, dozens of them are laid on top of each other, creating not a rational counterpoint but instead the heady glossolalia of nature.
- Some Christian services include glossolalia, spirit possession, and faith healing.
- The third symptom, glossolalia, was observed in two of the orderlies and one physician, who were admitted over the course of the evening.
- In charismatic Christian communities glossolalia is sacred and referred to as ‘speaking in tongues’ or having ‘the gift of tongues.’
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek glōssa ‘language, tongue’ + lalia ‘speech’. |