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词汇 glossolalia
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Definition of glossolalia in English:

glossolalia

noun ˌɡlɒsəˈleɪlɪə
mass noun
  • The phenomenon of (apparently) speaking in an unknown language, especially in religious worship. It is practised especially by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians.

    (尤指宗教礼拜中,特别是五旬节派教会教徒和有神授超凡能力的基督徒)(明显地)用未知语言说话的现象

    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

  • glossolalic

  • 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:

glossolalia

noun
  • The phenomenon of (apparently) speaking in an unknown language, especially in religious worship. It is practiced especially by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians.

    (尤指宗教礼拜中,特别是五旬节派教会教徒和有神授超凡能力的基督徒)(明显地)用未知语言说话的现象

    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’.

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