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gift of tongues

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gift of tongues
n.
The ability or phenomenon to utter words or sounds of a language unknown to the speaker, especially as an expression of religious ecstasy. Also called glossolalia, speaking in tongues.
[From the Apostles' speaking in tongues in Acts 2:4.]
gift of tongues
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) an utterance, partly or wholly unintelligible, produced under the influence of ecstatic religious emotion and conceived to be a manifestation of the Holy Ghost: practised in certain Christian churches, usually called Pentecostal Also called glossolalia


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