doxology
Liturgical praise song
A doxology is a short hymn or formula of praise to God, typically sung or recited in Christian worship services.
The most familiar is the one beginning Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
The word applies broadly to any liturgical expression glorifying the divine, often marking the conclusion of psalms, prayers, or sermons.
Praise to excess
- exaltPraise with great intensity
- extolPraise with enthusiasm
- laudTo voice high esteem
- adoreLove intensely
magnify · bless · worship · venerate · acclaim · honor · tribute · thanksgiving
Formal spoken blessing
- alleluiaSacred exclamation of worship
- hallelujahJoyful exclamation of gratitude
- amenSolemn spoken agreement
- vespersEvening devotional service
compline · lauds · matins · introit · gradual · offertory · recessional · invocation
glorify
Praise to excess
adore · magnify · bless · worship · venerate · acclaim · honor · tribute · thanksgiving · reverence
benediction
Formal spoken blessing
- alleluiaSacred exclamation of worship
- hallelujahJoyful exclamation of gratitude
- amenSolemn spoken agreement
vespers · compline · lauds · matins · introit · gradual · offertory · recessional · invocation · collect
chorale
Hymn tune or choir
verse · refrain · stanza · melody · chant · hymnal · psalmody · acapella · chorus · motet
consecration
Dedicating to sacred purpose
chalice · altar · paten · anamnesis · oblation · fraction · thanksgiving · offering · sacrament · mass
- Byzantine Hymnskontakion
- praiselauding, compliments, laudation, accolades, great job
- ritualsritual, rite, ceremony, sacrament, blessing
- worshippraying, congregational prayer, adoration, praise God, evening prayer
- sacred musichymns, hymn, anthem, anthems, gospel
- Black ChurchBaptist church, gospel choir, pastor, preacher, deacons
doxologylament
Mournful expression of grief
lamentation · wail · dirge · elegy · mourning song
doxologyblasphemy
Irreverence toward the sacred
profanity · curse · execration · malediction · imprecation
paradox, unorthodox, orthodox, orthodoxy, heterodox, logos, heterodoxy