zoolatry en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /zoʊˈɑlətɹi/ (General-American)
- /zuˈɑlətɹi/ (General-American)
- /zəʊˈɒlətɹi/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /zuːˈɒlətɹi/ (UK)
Etymology
Borrowed from French zoolâtrie, New Latin zoolatria, from zoo- + -latry.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The worship of animals.
Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.
2004, Simson R Najovits, Egypt, Trunk of the Tree: A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land, →ISBN, page 227: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 through which the race has passed.
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, page 222:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| zoolatries | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| zoölatry | alternative | lexicographic |
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Translations (11)
cmn 動物崇拜 /动物崇拜 (worship of animals) · de Zoolatrie (worship of animals) · pl animalizm (worship of animals) · fi eläintenpalvonta (worship of animals) · pl zoolatria (worship of animals) · eo zoolatrio (worship of animals) · fi zoolatria (worship of animals) · ja 動物崇拝 (worship of animals) · el ζωολατρία (worship of animals) · fr zoolâtrie (worship of animals) · ak mmoadoma som (worship of animals)