Meanings
noungyniolatry (uncountable)
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of gynolatry.
[W]e find in the [Divina] Commedia the image of the Middle Ages, and the sentimental gyniolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin-deep, is lifted in Beatrice to an ideal and universal plane.
1876, James Russell Lowell, “Dante”, in Among My Books. Second Series., Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, page 36
Origin
From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ) + -olatry.
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