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
Other Word Forms
- bibliolater noun
- bibliolatrist noun
- bibliolatrous adjective
Etymology
Origin of bibliolatry
Example Sentences
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Yet deism deserves to be remembered as a strenuous protest against bibliolatry in every degree and against all traditionalism in theology.
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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.
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He was a part of New England's bibliolatry.
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It has been the home of rational religion for some years—of the religion of humanity—of religion purified from formalism, bibliolatry, and cant.
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So far as Protestantism itself was concerned, it did not have in it, as a consequence of this bibliolatry, the intellectual vitality necessary to a true evolution.
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