basileolatry
nounUK /basɪlɪˈɒlətɹi/
Etymology From Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”); compare basilean, basileiolatry, and basilolatry.
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Rare basileiolatry
- Against the Byzantine Basileolatry.1850, Dr Augustus Neander, translated by Joseph Torrey, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, III, page xvii:
- Before the Reform Bill anything resembling the neurosis of English Basileolatry was even more completely unknown.1938, Robert Briffault, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, pages 114–115: