Meanings
- rareuncountableAdoration of or devotion to a baby or babies.
There will be as there must be much baby talk in the nurseries of a people so far gone in “babyolatry” as are we Americans.
1926, Milwaukee Public Schools: Professional pamphlet series: Issue 122 more examples
To take one small example, Swinburne's famous celebration of Marian's baby in Aurora Leigh (mentioned on p. 141) stems not so much from a contemporary 'glorification' of maternity as his own much-documented and idiosyncratic 'babyolatry'.
1999, Andrew Gurr, Phillipa Hardman, Lionel Kelly, The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial PrinciplesI must say I prefer living breathing parents who communicate with their children, whatever the quality of the message delivered, to parents who have been converted to the stupid and harmful religion of babyolatry!
2005, Aldo Naouri, Fathers and Mothers
Origin
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