hyperduliaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• (英国発音) IPA: /hʌɪpəduːˈlʌɪə/

名詞

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, published 2010, page 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.

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• dulia