Constitutionolatry
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The worship of the Constitution. nonce-word, uncountable
"[…] the written Constitution bequeathed by them to the country became a Holy Scripture. A man was permitted to think as he pleased about the Bible; but it was accounted blasphemy to whisper a suspicion that any clause in the American Constitution was not written by Divine inspiration. Our fathers had devoured Metis herself, and lo! panoplied Wisdom sprang from their brain. This Constitutionolatry was real in the first generation after the formation of the Federal Union."
Example
More examples"[…] the written Constitution bequeathed by them to the country became a Holy Scripture. A man was permitted to think as he pleased about the Bible; but it was accounted blasphemy to whisper a suspicion that any clause in the American Constitution was not written by Divine inspiration. Our fathers had devoured Metis herself, and lo! panoplied Wisdom sprang from their brain. This Constitutionolatry was real in the first generation after the formation of the Federal Union."
Etymology
From Constitution + -o- + -latry.
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