archaeolatry
archaeolatry noun: worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.
Noun
archaeolatry (uncountable)
- 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
- Later on, during the second half of the nineteenth century, it was the language question that occupied the centre of the political scene. This time, unmitigated archaeolatry ran hand in hand with religious traditionalism.2002, Mikael af Malmborg, Bo Stråth, The Meaning of Europe, page 39
Forms of archaeolatry
| alternative form | archæolatry |
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| alternative form | archeolatry |
Origin of archaeolatry
From archae- + -o- + -latry, from Ancient Greek: ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”) in combination with λατρεία (latreía, “service", "worship”).
Questions about archaeolatry
- What does archaeolatry mean?
- Archaeolatry means worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.
- What part of speech is archaeolatry?
- Archaeolatry is a noun.
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