Bibliolatry

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bibliolatry \Bib`li*ol"a*try\ (b[i^]b`l[i^]*[o^]l"[.a]*tr[y^]),
     n. [Gr. bibli`on book + latrei`a service, worship, latrey`ein
     to serve.]
     Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic
     divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over
     that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an


     excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.
     --Coleridge. --F. W. Newman.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bibliolatry
       n : worship of the Bible [syn: {Bible-worship}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "bibliolatry":
     Sabbatarianism, bibliomania, bigotry, bluestockingism,
     book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore,
     charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal,
     classical scholarship, classicism, culture, dogmatism, donnishness,
     eruditeness, erudition, evangelicalism, fanaticism, fundamentalism,
     gift of tongues, glossolalia, hideboundness, humanism,
     humanistic scholarship, hyperorthodoxy, intellectualism,
     intellectuality, learnedness, letters, literacy, literalism,
     overdevoutness, overpiousness, overreligiousness,
     overrighteousness, overzealousness, pedantism, pedantry,
     pentecostalism, precisianism, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism,
     reading, revival, revivalism, sabbatism, sanctimony, scholarship,
     scripturalism, staunchness, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness,
     strict interpretation, strictness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry,
     zealousness