douleia

plural douleias · alternative dulia

1. uncountableusuallyIn Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels.

   The lowest degree of worship is called douleia (δουλεία) which, they say, is offered to saints and angels.

   1870, The Bulwark, Or, Reformation Journal, page 134

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   But paſſing by this fopperie, FIRST the diſtinction of religious worſhip into Latreia and Douleia is denyed, because there is no ſuch thing.

   1644, David Pareus, A Commentary upon the Divine Revelation of the Apostle and Evangelist John, page 485

   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.

   1825, P.A. Baines, A Defence of the Christian Religion, page 94