Definition of "dulia" []

• The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God (noun)

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• "That the religious worship called dulia, as well as latria, belongeth to God alone (Rom.i. 9; xii. 11; xvi. 18 compared.) 13."
• "The present seems to be a convenient place for observing, that however the distinction is strongly insisted upon, or rather implicitly acquiesced in by many, which would admit of a worship or service called dulia (the Greek [Greek: douleia]) to saints and angels, and would limit the worship or service called latria ([Greek: latreia]) to the supreme"
• "I will only detain you by one more example, drawn from two passages, which seems the more striking because each of the two words "dulia" and"