[a. Gr. θεοτόκος adj., f. θεό-ς God + -τοκος bringing forth, f. stem τεκ-, τοκ- of τίκτειν το bear.] A title of the Virgin Mary as ‘Mother of God’; = DEIPARA.
1874. Pusey, Lent. Serm., 206. By this, the lowly Virgin became Theotokos, ‘the Mother of God.’
1879. Sir G. G. Scott, Lect. Archit., xvii. II. 257. The Church of the Holy Theotokos, or of the Mother of God, is of much later date.
1896. Trans. St. Paul’s Eccles. Soc., IV. I. 175. The devout orison to our Lady … said in honour of the Blessed Theotokos.
So Theotoky, the divine motherhood of Mary.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 24 April, 4/3. The Mysteries of … the Virginity of the Blessed Virgin, the Theotoky.
