"gerontolatry" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1957, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman, Punch, Volume 232, page 49",
          "text": "Gerontolatry, an inevitable development of the many movements afoot to make the world safe for the old folks, has had a fine fling this goodwill season, and old folks' engagement-books, to say nothing of the old folks, have been full to bursting.",
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          "ref": "1989, Perceptions of Aging in Literature: A Cross-cultural Study, page 87",
          "text": "Because Russian literature is an integral part of European literature, it shares the latter's prejudices and displays a full spectrum of those commonplaces involving old age that are so familiar in the West; certainly there is none of the gerontolatry that is a notable feature of Far Eastern, especially Chinese, culture.",
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          "text": "In which senses was Spartan society gerontocratic and gerontocentric? What were the roots and the symbols and what was the extent of gerontocracy and gerontolatry at Sparta?",
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        "Worship of old people."
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