Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The worship of saints or sacred things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The worship of saints or sacred things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The worship of
saints
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the worship of saints
Etymologies
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hiero- + -latry
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Examples
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And thou here practisest such idolatry and hierolatry?
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And thou here practisest such idolatry and hierolatry?
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And thou here practisest such idolatry and hierolatry?
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Were it true, they would have been able to have traced the progress of the Christolatry from the lowest sort of 'Christodulia' with the same historical distinctness against the universal Church, that the Protestants have that of hierolatry against the Romanists.
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820
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