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A.M.D.G.

American

Or AMDG

abbreviation

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

AMDG British

abbreviation

ad majorem Dei gloriam (the Jesuit motto)

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Etymology

Origin of A.M.D.G.

From Latin ad majōrem Deī glōriam

Example Sentences

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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.

From A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce, James

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.

From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel

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