'Bibliolatry' definitions:
Definition of 'bibliolatry'
From: WordNet
noun
The worship of the Bible [syn: bibliolatry, Bible- worship]
Definition of 'Bibliolatry'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'bibliolatry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Sabbatarianism,
- sabbatism,
- sanctimony,
- scholarship,
- scripturalism,
- staunchness,
- stiff-neckedness,
- straitlacedness,
- strict interpretation,
- strictness,
- zeal,
- zealotism,
- zealotry,
- zealousness