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basilolatry

UK/basɪlˈɒlətɹi/

basilolatry noun: basileiolatry.

Noun

basilolatry (uncountable)

  1. basileiolatry
    • [Bp Samuel] Parker has been more than usually offensive in his Basilolatry (if we may coin a word), and [Andrew] Marvell says, “His Majesty” (it would seem) “may lay by his Dieu, and make use only of his mon droit.”1876, Henry Kingsley, Fireside Studies I, “The Old-Fashioned Member”, page 261
    • The fact is that there is not in the Roman liturgy…any of the extravagant basilolatry which we find in the Book of Common Prayer.1902, The Month, C, page 89

Examples of basilolatry in a sentence

  • Individualism…was not quite at its best in the self-righteous era of George the Third, and under the Establishment which was regulated by a now almost obsolete basilolatry.1904, Louise Imogen Guiney, Robert Emmet, page 68:
  • His animus…led him to handle as self-evident fallacies the darling predilections of centuries of British basilolatry.1904, Louise Imogen Guiney, Hurrell Froude, page 214:
  • The ‘basilolatry’ or king-worship which came to disfigure the Prayer Book stands in marked contrast to the sober intercessions of the Roman liturgy of the period for both emperor and king.1993, Aidan Nichols, The Panther and the Hind, page 24:
  • The calling of the Sanhedrin raised Grégoire’s concern about what he called Basilolatry, the attempt to deify a ruler.2000, Richard Henry Popkin, “Grégoire’s American Involvements”, essay 8 in The Abbé Grégoire and His World, eds. Jeremy D. Popkin and...

Origin of basilolatry

Ancient Greek βασιλ(εύς) (basil(eús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía), latreia, “worship”); compare basileiolatry, basileolatry, basilic, and basilisk

Questions about basilolatry

What does basilolatry mean?
Basilolatry means basileiolatry.
How do you use basilolatry in a sentence?
Individualism…was not quite at its best in the self-righteous era of George the Third, and under the Establishment which was regulated by a now almost obsolete basilolatry.
What part of speech is basilolatry?
Basilolatry is a noun.
How do you pronounce basilolatry?
Basilolatry is pronounced /basɪlˈɒlətɹi/ (UK).

Words near basilolatry in the dictionary

  1. basilissa
  2. basiliximab
  3. basilled
  4. basilless
  5. basilling
  6. basilolatry
  7. basilophorous
  8. basilosaur
  9. basilosaurid
  10. basilosaurids
  11. basilosaurs

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