speak in tongues


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Verb1.speak in tongues - speak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy; "The parishioners spoke in tongues"
mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
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Even after news arrived in the fall of 1906 telling of the Los Angeles revival and more people began to speak in tongues, their understanding of tongues-speech differed in crucial respects.
"Latter Rain" Falling in the East: Early-Twentieth-Century Pentecostalism in India and the Debate over Speaking in Tongues
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