basileolatry
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”); compare basilean, basileiolatry, and basilolatry.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
basileolatry (uncountable)
- (rare) basileiolatry
- 1850, Dr Augustus Neander, translated by Joseph Torrey, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, III, page xvii:
- Against the Byzantine Basileolatry.
- 1938, Robert Briffault, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, pages 114–115:
- Before the Reform Bill anything resembling the neurosis of English Basileolatry was even more completely unknown.
Translations[edit]
basileiolatry — see basileiolatry