Mariolatry
Americannoun
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excessive (and proscribed) veneration of the Virgin Mary, especially in forms appropriate to God.
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veneration of women.
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Mariolatry is only the outgrowth of the seedling that lay dormant in Mary's heart, and is indigenous.
From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton
Not till the time of the Counter-Reformation did Mariolatry reappear in the higher Italian poetry.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
Of the great passions which gave life to the Middle Ages, that of religious enthusiasm had degenerated into the conceits of Mariolatry, that of war into the extravagances of Chivalry.
From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green
I now wish to direct the reader's attention to The Triumph of Religion in the Arts, otherwise The Magnificat of Art, or The Christian Parnassus, or the triumph of Mariolatry.
From Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson
We may attribute his action either to his zeal for the extirpation of Mariolatry, or to his fear lest sacred legend should be confounded with sacred history.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare
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