Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Given to or characterized by bibliolatry.

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  • adjective given to Bible-worship

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Examples

  • Thanks to the tireless enforcers of Darwinian purity necessary and time wasting efforts of actual hard working scientists responding to an unconscionable attack on honest scholarship by a sine nobilis, bibliolatrous bunch of cultural miscreants.

    No more coffee for Mr Witt - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • They've been micromanaging missionaries until they resign in frustration, firing missionaries who could not conscientiously support their bibliolatrous theology, and selling off/closing down the system of schools and hospitals in foreign lands that we created to earn a hearing for the gospel.

    Philocrites: Go and make Republicans of all nations. 2004

  • They've been micromanaging missionaries until they resign in frustration, firing missionaries who could not conscientiously support their bibliolatrous theology, and selling off/closing down the system of schools and hospitals in foreign lands that we created to earn a hearing for the gospel.

    Philocrites: November 2004 Archives 2004

  • And your wicked bibliolatrous ancestors proceeded on that idea throughout

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • Oh, that one had lived in the times of those New-England wretches that desolated whole districts and terrified vast provinces by their judicial murders of witches, under plea of a bibliolatrous warrant; until at last the fiery furnace, which they had heated for women and children, shot forth flames that, like those of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace, seizing upon his very agents, began to reach some of the murderous judges and denouncers!

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • 'witchcraft,' and the too memorable histories connected with it, lies a perfect mine of bibliolatrous madness.

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • [Preface to the [4] Collection of Hymns for the People Called Methodists] It was a merit in Wesley’s eyes, not because of any rigidly bibliolatrous notions, but partly because, as a scholar and a gentleman, he liked to see great things clothed in great language.

    The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers 1942

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