Archaeolatry

Quick meaning: Archaeolatry is a noun meaning Worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.

Meaning

Worship of an antiquity; excessive veneration of antiquity.

Example Sentences

That is, it continues a tradition of archaeolatry and the Hellenocentricism that began with Winckelmann and trived with the contribution of Greek scholars.

Here Axioti opposes to ethnocentric archaeolatry one's "painful" relation to the present and past, which is based on the search for authentic, not superficial, signals of this continuity .

Later on, during the second half of the nineteenth century, it was the language question that occupied the centre of the political scene. This time, unmitigated archaeolatry ran hand in hand with religious traditionalism.

Word Forms

• archeolatry

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include archeolatry, antiquarianism, archaeologism, archaist, archaeography, ancestorism.

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