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Definition of Bibliolatrous
1. Adjective. Given to Bible-worship.
Definition of Bibliolatrous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bibliolatrous
Literary usage of Bibliolatrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1906)
"The Hussite movement as a whole was from first to last bibliolatrous, fanatical,
unenlightened save by a few democratic instincts, and it came socially to ..."
2. The English Review (1847)
"... be deficient in many points taught from the beginning by the Church, but would
gradually melt away into inanity, or sink into bibliolatrous formalism. ..."
3. Oxford and Her Colleges: A View from the Radcliffe Library by Goldwin Smith (1893)
"Puritanism might be narrow and bibliolatrous, but it was not obscurantist nor
the enemy of science. We see this in Puritan Oxford as well as ..."
4. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"... now extinct Flying serpents, snakes many-headed, rain-bringing, woman-hating,
&c, may be suffered to survive as the fauna of bibliolatrous imaginations. ..."
5. A Treatise on the practice of medicine by Roberts Bartholow (1898)
"In the first preface it was stated that I had avoided an attempt at bibliographical
display, which has perplexed some of my bibliolatrous critics. ..."
6. Pioneer Humanists by John Mackinnon Robertson (1907)
"What made him begin to criticise the bibliolatrous creed of his race ? Was it
spontaneous doubt; or was the doubt aroused from the outside? ..."
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