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hagiolatry

NOUN
  1. the worship of saints

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  • But, if the hagiolatry of Waters and Pollan isn't your cup of organic oolong, howzabout lending an ear to Chef Michel Nischan's take on these more Earth-attentive buying practices. Slashfood
  • In addition, female figures were prominent in the Irish Catholic hagiolatry of the area, harking back to the powerful position of goddesses and female druids in the pagan Celtic belief system, a status that carried over into early Celtic Christianity. Gutenber-e Help Page
  • The companion to media demonisation is the hagiolatry of Western leaders and apologetics for their crimes.
  • It is calculated that more than 2,000 books have been published on him, but a great deal of it is hagiolatry, lacking critical rigour and dispassionate appraisal.
  • Though far from a scientific conception of natural law, many men had become sufficiently monistic in their philosophy to see in the current hagiolatry a sort of polytheism. The Age of the Reformation
  • I should be sorry to find you far gone in hagiolatry. Gryll Grange
  • Nevertheless, the ceremony is one of the most ancient blessings, just as the cult of the Baptist is very ancient in Catholic hagiolatry.
  • On this fact hypothesis I remark that, if the shipwrecked foreigners were educated men, or only possessed of such Scriptural knowledge as was then imparted to the commonality of laymen, it is morally impossible to conceive that a Spaniard of the sixteenth century should confine his instruction to some of the leading events of the Old Testament, and be totally silent upon the Christian dispensation, and the cruciolatry, mariolatry, and hagiolatry of that day. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends
  • But this kind of hagiolatry might spread the length and breadth of the continent with the appearance of further saints of this type.
  • In this country and in USA there is a distinguished tradition of hagiolatry of these scoundrels.
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