Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of archæolatry.
Fortunately, few scholars could be accused of such archeolatry, for they knew all too well that funding, security and, above all, interest on the part of the general public were lacking.
2015, Michael Greenhalgh, Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-century France, →ISBN2 more examples
The living culture was all but strangled by an obsessive archeolatry, and by the systematic attempt to create an artificial, 'pure' language (the so-called katharevousa) that, cleansed of all 'non-Greek' pollution, closely resembled its long-dead classical forebear.
1992, Nicos P. Mouzelis, Post-Marxist Alternatives: The Construction of Social Orders, →ISBN, page 112I also consider as defensive compartmentalization the obsessive archeolatry that has marked the Greek educational system from its very inception, and which often leads students to believe that anything worth knowing has already been discovered by their illustrious ancestors thousands of years ago.
1998, Dimitris Keridis, Chryssostomos Sfatos, Greek Higher Education: Prospects for Reform, →ISBN, page 167
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