Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Extravagant devotion to or worship of woman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The adoration or worship of woman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
adoration orworship ofwomen .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the worship of women
Etymologies
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Examples
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The current gyneolatry is as far outside his scheme of things as the current program of rewards and punishments, sins and virtues, causes and effects.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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The practice of avoiding marital responsibility is frequently condemned by the medical press, even by the pulpit; but while M. D.'s and D. D.'s make a specialty of both gynecology and gyneolatry, neither seem to understand the spirit in which these sins against hygienics are committed.
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Looked at with the scientific eye it is sheer gyneolatry, -- the chivalrous sentiment inflated with poetic wind, like a bubble, to the utmost possible degree of iridescent tenuity.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Amorally, a enchanting car chaldaean sale gyneolatry rhapis to be the way to go in vibrato to untrustiness the topical amuck slap abstracter.
Rational Review 2009
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Christ was a prohibitionist), the Ellen Key of the new gyneolatry and the Signorina Montessori of the magical Method.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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Looked at with the scientific eye it is sheer gyneolatry, ” the chivalrous sentiment inflated with poetic wind, like a bubble, to the utmost possible degree of iridescent tenuity.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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