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archæolatry

archæolatry is the alternative form of archaeolatry.

Meaning of archaeolatry

Noun

archaeolatry (uncountable)

  1. Worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.
    • Here Axioti opposes to ethnocentric archaeolatry one's "painful" relation to the present and past, which is based on the search for authentic, not superficial, signals of this continuity .1992, Maria Kakavoulia, Interior Monologue and Its Discursive Formation in Melpo Axioti's Dyskoles Nychtes

Questions about archæolatry

What is archæolatry the alternative form of?
Archæolatry is the alternative form of archaeolatry.

Words near archæolatry in the dictionary

  1. archæism
  2. archæisms
  3. archælogical
  4. archæo-
  5. archæobotany
  6. archæolatry
  7. archæologic
  8. archæological
  9. archæologically
  10. archæologies
  11. archæologist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archæolatry (page history and authors); archaeolatry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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