Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lord-worship; excessive respect for the nobility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Jocose Worship of, or reverence for, a lord as such.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Worship of, orreverence for,lords .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the worship of a lord because of his rank or title
Etymologies
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lord + -latry
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Examples
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And again: "How should it be otherwise in a country where lordolatry is part of our creed, and where our children are brought up to respect the 'Peerage' as the Englishman's second Bible."
Thackeray Anthony Trollope 1848
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Rational Review 2009
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