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zoölatry

zoölatry is the alternative spelling of zoolatry.

Meaning of zoolatry

Noun

zoolatry (usually uncountable, plural zoolatries)

  1. (usually) The worship of animals.
    • our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those...1904, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company...

Origin of zoölatry

From zoö- + -latry.

Questions about zoölatry

What is zoölatry the alternative spelling of?
Zoölatry is the alternative spelling of zoolatry.

Words near zoölatry in the dictionary

  1. zoögraphist
  2. zoögraphists
  3. zoögraphy
  4. zoöid
  5. zoöids
  6. zoölatry
  7. zoöloger
  8. zoölogers
  9. zoölogies
  10. zoölogist
  11. zoölogists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zoölatry (page history and authors); zoolatry (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.

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