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onolatry

onolatry noun: worship of the ass or donkey.

Noun

onolatry (usually uncountable, plural onolatries)

  1. (usually) Worship of the ass or donkey.
    • The calumny of onolatry, or ass-worship, attributed by Tacitus and other writers to the Jews, was afterwards, by the hatred of the latter, transferred to the Christians.1913, Charles George Herbermann, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Press, page 793
  2. (usually) Preoccupation with or devotion to something foolish.

Forms of onolatry

pluralonolatries

Origin of onolatry

Borrowed from Latin onolatrīa, from the Ancient Greek ὀνολᾰτρείᾱ (onolătreíā), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + λᾰτρείᾱ (lătreíā, “worship”).

Questions about onolatry

What does onolatry mean?
Onolatry means worship of the ass or donkey.
What part of speech is onolatry?
Onolatry is a noun.
What is the plural of onolatry?
The plural of onolatry is onolatries.

Words near onolatry in the dictionary

  1. Onodas
  2. Onodi
  3. Onodis
  4. onoi
  5. onolatries
  6. onolatry
  7. onomancies
  8. onomancy
  9. onomantia
  10. onomantic
  11. onomantical

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