bibliolatry
Americannoun
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excessive reverence for the Bible as literally interpreted.
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extravagant devotion to or dependence upon books.
noun
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excessive devotion to or reliance on the Bible
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extreme fondness for books
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Origin of bibliolatry
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Having emancipated myself from the thraldom of bibliolatry and priestcraft generally, it is my aim to examine what seems to be my duty as a man and an integer of society.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
He was a part of New England's bibliolatry.
From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Chester E. Jorgenson
It has been the home of rational religion for some years—of the religion of humanity—of religion purified from formalism, bibliolatry, and cant.
From The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
Certainly he is much farther from bibliolatry than from the perfect freedom of the humanist interpreters.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
The Swiss and the Anabaptists added their voices to this chorus of bibliolatry.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
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