A.M.D.G.

or AMDG

abbreviation for

1. for the greater glory of God: motto of the Jesuits.

AMDG

abbreviation for

1. ad majorem Dei gloriam (the Jesuit motto)

Word History and Origins

Origin of A.M.D.G.¹

From Latin ad majōrem Deī glōriam

Word History and Origins

Origin of A.M.D.G.¹

Latin: to the greater glory of God

Example Sentences

A.M.D.G." wrote the bishop; and he drew a cross under these four letters, which signify ad majorem Dei gloriam, "to the greater glory of God;" and thus he continued, "It is our pleasure that the order brought to M. de Baisemeaux de Montlezun, governor, for the king, of the castle of the Bastille, he held by him good and effectual, and be immediately carried into operation.

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And that assuredly is A.M.D.G.

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From force of habit he had written at the top of the first page the initial letters of the jesuit motto: A.M.D.G.

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I am told, by the way, that I must have let my memory play me one of the tricks it often does play me, when I said the Doctor proposed Ad Mariam Dei Genetricem as the full harmonies, so to speak, which should be constructed upon the bass A.M.D.G., for that this is bad Latin, and that the doctor really harmonised the letters thus: Ave Maria Dei Genetrix. 

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He had grounded his attack upon the letters A.M.D.G., which he had seen outside a Roman Catholic chapel, and which of course stood for Ad Mariam Dei Genetricem. 

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