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symbolatry

symbolatry noun: the worship of symbols.

Noun

symbolatry (uncountable)

  1. The worship of symbols.
    • And then, upon this thoroughly baseless assumption, the critic proceeds to read all of us a lecture upon our sacrilegious symbolatry, and the dreadful abyss into which we are hurrying with fatal velocity.1912, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 42, page 366
    • The soulful intensity of her lamentation can be best understood if we remember that in Hindu symbolatry the blue colour, which goes with the sky and the sea, is attributed to Infinity.1968, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture, volume 20, page 713

Origin of symbolatry

From symbol + -latry.

Questions about symbolatry

What does symbolatry mean?
Symbolatry means the worship of symbols.
What part of speech is symbolatry?
Symbolatry is a noun.

Words near symbolatry in the dictionary

  1. symbol table
  2. symbol tables
  3. symbol-pushing
  4. symbolaeography
  5. symbolatrous
  6. symbolatry
  7. symbole
  8. symboled
  9. symboles
  10. symbolgram
  11. symbolgrams

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