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
Example Sentences
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From bibliolatry Coleridge was saved by the spiritualism, which, in questions less simple than that of the infallibility of Scripture, was so retarding to his culture.
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
Yet deism deserves to be remembered as a strenuous protest against bibliolatry in every degree and against all traditionalism in theology.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
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
Deserving no aid from the powerful arm of bibliolatry, then, does the received form of the hypothesis of special creation derive any support from science or sound logic?
From Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews by Thomas Henry Huxley
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