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Nov 29, 2009
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speak'ing in tongues'




a form of glossolalia in which a person experiencing religious ecstasy utters incomprehensible sounds that the speaker believes are a language spoken through him or her by a deity. Also called gift of tongues.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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