hieˈrolatry
[See hiero- and -latry.]
Worship of holy beings or saints: hagiolatry.
| c 1814 Coleridge in Rem. (1836) III. 71 To have traced the progress of the Christolatry..with the same historical distinctness..that the Protestants have that of hierolatry against the Romanists. 1861 Macm. Mag. V. 127 Mariolatry, hierolatry..amongst educated French Roman Catholics, of the male sex at least, may now be said to be nowhere. |