douleia means in Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
Why this word is great
DOULEIA — [Noun] In Roman Catholic theology, the inferior veneration or honor lawfully accorded to saints and angels, distinct from the supreme worship reserved for God alone. From Medieval Latin dulia, from Ancient Greek δουλεία (douleía, 'slavery, servitude'), from δοῦλος (doûlos, 'slave'). Unlike latria (the absolute adoration owed only to the divine) or hyperdulia (the elevated reverence granted to the Virgin Mary), douleia is the sober, measured honor for the merely perfected. It is the worn stone of a saint's tomb kissed smooth by generations, the murmured litany in the candle-smoke haze of a side chapel, the medal struck for a guardian angel warm in a child's pocket—a hierarchy of homage mapping the vast, silent distance between the human and the holy.
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- In Roman Catholicism, the inferior veneration accorded to saints and angels.“But paſſing by this fopperie, FIRST the diſtinction of religious worſhip into Latreia and Douleia is denyed, because there is no ſuch thing.”