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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hagiolatry

Hagiolatry \Ha`gi*ol"a*try\ (-[o^]l"[.a]*tr[y^]), n. [Gr. "a`gios sacred + ? worship.] The invocation or worship of saints.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hagiolatry

worship of saints, from hagio- (see hagiology) + -latry.

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hagiolatry

n. The worship of saints.

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hagiolatry

n. worship of saints [syn: hierolatry, worship of saints]

Usage examples of "hagiolatry".

Though far from a scientific conception of natural law, many men had become sufficiently monistic in their philosophy to see in the current hagiolatry a sort of polytheism.