latria means The highest form of worship, named adoration, properly given to the triune God alone. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
Why this word is great
LATRIA — [Noun] The supreme and absolute adoration due to God alone. From Late Latin latria, from Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, "service, worship"). Unlike dulia, the veneration accorded to saints, or hyperdulia, the special reverence for the Virgin, latria is not a degree but a category of its own—the absolute and exclusive sovereignty of devotion. It is the candle flame burning straight up in a windless cathedral, the deliberate breaking of the alabaster jar, the total orientation of a life toward a single, consuming focal point. This is the quiet, terrifying space where awe becomes absolute, the one debt that, in being paid, reveals the debtor to have possessed nothing of his own.
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- The highest form of worship, named adoration, properly given to the triune God alone.