Zoolatry
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The worship of animals. uncountable, usually
"our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed."
- 2 the worship of animals wordnet
Example
More examples"our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed."
Etymology
Borrowed from French zoolâtrie, New Latin zoolatria, from zoo- + -latry.
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