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latria

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La`tri´a    (lå`trī´å; 277)
n.1.The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; - distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints.
latria
worship of the highest order that can be offered only to God.
See also: Christianity, Theology
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Noun1.latrialatria - the worship given to God alone
adoration
worship - the activity of worshipping
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He offered a reformed cult of the saints recognizing the Catholic distinctions among dulia, inferior veneration paid to saints, hyperdulia, veneration to Mary, and latria, the supreme worship due God alone.
Conversing with God: Prayer in Erasmus' Pastoral Writings by COOGAN, ROBERT / Renaissance Quarterly
Old Thomistic distinctions between latria and dulia, for example, or among the degrees of worship or respect we owe (in descending order) to God, our parents, our rulers, and our boss(21), are reduced (I paraphrase) to "that isn't the way we do things in California.
Civil Idolatry: Desacralizing and Monarchy in Spenser, Shakespeare, ... by Low, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
Old Thomistic distinctions between latria and dulia, for example, or among the degrees of worship or respect we owe (in descending order) to God, our parents, our rulers, and our boss(21), are reduced (I paraphrase) to "that isn't the way we do things in California.
John Milton's Writings in the Anglo-Dutch Negotiations: 1651-1654 by Low, Anthony / Renaissance Quarterly
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