bibliolatry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Specifically, excessive reverence for, or worship of, the Bible or Qur'an, especially as taken literally.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "the danger of bibliolatry is only too apparent in the contemptuous references often made by Christian authorities to the uselessness of pagan literature since access to the Bible had been secured by the Church."
- "Bibliolatry led to a phobia about swearing; rejection of the Bible made it possible again, and with it a release of the repressions which gave the Puritan middle class their moral energy."
- "The exponents of bibliolatry rely on the letter and make the spirit dependent on the letter"
- "they are also committing "bibliolatry" by putting the Bible where God alone belongs"
- ""bibliolatry" (the fundamentalist insistence on the literal truth of "the Bible as the Word of God")"
- "Some sectors of the religious world have been accused […] of "bibliolatry," that is, valuing their Bible itself so highly that they are almost guilty of idolatry."
Etymology
From biblio- + -latry.