"Bibliolatry" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From Biblio- + -latry. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|Biblio|latry}} Biblio- + -latry Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Bibliolatry (uncountable)
  1. Alternative letter-case form of bibliolatry (“the worship of the Bible”). Tags: alt-of, uncountable Alternative form of: bibliolatry (extra: the worship of the Bible)

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          "text": "[I]f this is the rational reverence of Protestantism,—it cannot be long before the ingenuity of our enemies compiles the annals of Bibliolatry, abounding, if not with sad impieties, yet with absurdities as numberless and as noxious as the thousand and one Mariolatries, with which our controversialists are armed.",
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