latreia
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[edit]Noun
[edit]latreia (usually uncountable, plural latreias)
- Alternative spelling of latria
- 1644, David Pareus, A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John[1], page 485:
- But paſſing by this fopperie, FIRST the diſtinction of religious worſhip into Latreia and Douleia is denyed, because there is no ſuch thing.
- 1825, P.A. Baines, A Defence of the Christian Religion[2], page 94:
- But when we kiss the statue of St. Peter, with the intention of honouring St. Peter, this act is only Douleia, because St. Peter himself being only a man is not entitled to Latreia.