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hierolatry en · NOUN

Etymology

From hiero- + -latry.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The worship of saints
    • Luther's obstinate adherence to the ubiquity the Body of Christ and his or rather its real presence in and with the bread was a sad furtherance to the advocates of Popish idolatry and hierolatry. 1853, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, page 825: