Word.ws English Dictionary

hoplolatry

hoplolatry noun: the worship of weapons.

Noun

hoplolatry (uncountable)

  1. The worship of weapons.
    • The shield need not be on the altar; and, if it is, the scene may be one of Pa/fddion-v/orship, or even of mere hoplolatry.1914, Arthur Bernard Cook, Zeus a Study in Ancient Religion (Greek Mythology), 2Yk8AAAAIAAJ
    • Of immediate value is the author's interpretation of the hoplolatry of the Greeks. A weapon does not, of necessity, owe its sanctity to a god, but a case is cited in which a god grew out of a weapon.1918, Eli Mayer, War and Religion: A Sociological Study (War), ZXRqwkKm1WEC

Examples of hoplolatry in a sentence

  • We must then clear our minds of all notion that the hoplolatry of the Greeks implies anthropomorphism.1927, J.E. Harrison, Themis (History), →ISBN:
  • Cretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult.1944, Brill, Cretan Religion in Relation to Greek Religion:

Origin of hoplolatry

From hoplo- + -latry.

Questions about hoplolatry

What does hoplolatry mean?
Hoplolatry means the worship of weapons.
How do you use hoplolatry in a sentence?
We must then clear our minds of all notion that the hoplolatry of the Greeks implies anthropomorphism.
What part of speech is hoplolatry?
Hoplolatry is a noun.

Words near hoplolatry in the dictionary

  1. hoplocercines
  2. hoplochrism
  3. hoplochrisme
  4. hoplolaimid
  5. hoplolaimids
  6. hoplolatry
  7. hoplological
  8. hoplologist
  9. hoplologists
  10. hoplology
  11. hoplomachi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hoplolatry (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hoplolatry.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hoplolatry. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.