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
Mariolatry greatly affected men's attitude toward women in general, including their notions about love.
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
The Church itself never quite accepted the full claims of what was called Mariolatry.
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Henry Adams
To her, until Mariolatry set in with full intensity, the name of Sant' Iago was a tower of strength.
From An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Matthew Digby Wyatt
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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