1841 T. Arnold 462 (Notes) Faith without reason, is not properly faith, but mere power worship; and power worship may be devil worship.
1941 ‘G. Orwell’ Eng. your Eng. in i. 17 Power-worship..has never touched the common people.
1995 23 Sept. 27/6 Even more remote from Carlylean power-worship was that vast corpus of Victorian popular biography..devoted to the triumphs of self-help.