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symbolatry

noun

Etymology

From symbol + -latry.

  1. derived from σύμβολον
  2. derived from symbolus
  3. derived from symbole
  4. suffixed as symbolatry — “symbol + latry”

Definitions

  1. The worship of symbols.

    • And then, upon this thoroughly baseless assumption, the critic proceeds to read all of us a lecture upon our sacrilegious symbolatry, and the dreadful abyss into which we are hurrying with fatal velocity.
    • The soulful intensity of her lamentation can be best understood if we remember that in Hindu symbolatry the blue colour, which goes with the sky and the sea, is attributed to Infinity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for symbolatry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA