单词 | anthropolatry |
释义 | anthropolatryn. depreciative. The worship of a human as a divine being; the inappropriate or idolatrous elevation of a person to the status of a god. Cf. man-worship n. at man n.1 Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of humanity anthropolatry1647 positivism1846 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (James ii. 1) 415 He answered,..I would not leave Calvin to hear Paul. This is not only partiality but anthropolatry or Man-worship. 1657 T. Manton Pract. Comm. Jude xvi. 479 We may admire the gifts of God in others..but not so as to be guilty of anthropolatry, or man-worship. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 417 The Arians..are now dwindl'd from their Arian Pre-existent created God into the Socinian plain meer Anthropolatry. 1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 71 477 The anthropolatry of the Greeks. 1887 J. C. Morrison Service of Man 265 The worship of deities has passed into the service of man. Instead of Theolatry we have anthropolatry. 1972 J. T. Robinson Early Hominid Posture & Locomotion i. 1 Man is surely the dominant organism on this planet, even though it used to be thought that such a view represented..downright anthropolatry. 2011 Mail Today (New Delhi) (Nexis) 6 Nov. He [sc. the high commissioner] is not given to anthropolatry and steers clear of sycophancy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1647 |
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