Meanings
- rareuncountablebasileiolatry
Against the Byzantine Basileolatry.
1850, Dr Augustus Neander, translated by Joseph Torrey, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, III, page xvii1 more example
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
Origin
- Ancient Greekλατρεία“worship”
- Ancient Greekβασιλε(ύς)“king”
- Englishbasileolatry
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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