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单词 titanolatry
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Titanolatryn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: titano- comb. form1, -latry comb. form.
Etymology: < titano- comb. form1 + -latry comb. form; compare -olatry comb. form. Compare earlier Titanolater n.
Obsolete.
Worship of, or excessive respect for, power.With allusion to the great size and strength of the Titans of classical mythology.
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Titanolatry1860
1860 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 367/2 Heroes of romance six feet high are scarcely such unprecedented phenomena that every writer who introduces one is to be found guilty of ‘Titanolatry’.
a1875 C. Kingsley All Saint's Day (1878) xxxv. 322 To admire power for its own sake is one of those errors, which has been well called Titanolatry, the worship of giants.
1885 London Q. Rev. Apr. 4 Hare..warns young men, University men in particular, against..‘Titanolatry’, the idolatry of mere power.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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