different between dulia vs hyperdulia

English

Etymology

From Latin dulia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (douleía, “slavery”), from ?????? (doûlos, “slave”).

Noun

dulia (usually uncountable, plural dulias)

1. The veneration of saints, distinguished from latria, the worship of God.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     There were even moments when, looking into her cheval-glass, she cried out against that arrangement in comely lines and tints which got for her the dulia she delighted in.

Derived terms

• hyperdulia

Anagrams

• Daliu, Ulaid

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dulia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (douleía, “slavery”), from ?????? (doûlos, “slave”).

Noun

dulia f (plural dulie)

1. dulia

Anagrams

• aduli, duali, laudi

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin hyperd?l?a, from hyper-, from Ancient Greek ???? (hupér, “above”) + dulia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (douleía, “slavery”), from ?????? (doûlos, “slave”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??p?du??l???/

Noun

hyperdulia (usually uncountable, plural hyperdulias)

1. (Roman Catholicism) A level of veneration higher than dulia but less than latria, properly given to the Virgin Mary only.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 451:

     By the thirteenth century, the growth of devotion to Mary, the Mother of God, in both East and West led John of Damascus's admirer Thomas Aquinas to formalize a further refinement: the concept of an exceptional sort of veneration, hyperdulia, offered only to the greatest of God's creations, Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Related terms

• dulia