What does basileiolatry mean?
Basileiolatry means (chiefly in figurative use) Worship of the king..
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/basɪleɪˈɒlətɹi/ · noun
(chiefly in figurative use) Worship of the king..
At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry.
The “basileiolatry” which we are told is now the prevailing worship at Westminster seems to have begun in the middle ages.
When…the Second Recension was revised, the revisers…took pains to give greater significance to the queen’s coronation.…Different as it was, the same spirit of basileiolatry inspired the alternative version.
Already in the tenth century basileiolatry…was established in England. The king was God’s thegn, His vicar upon earth.
Maybe you have some half-baked mixture of feudal and absolutist theories in mind…and the basileiolatry you display suggests so.
Boyd’s ensuing burst of proud Scots patriotism quickly gives place to a flood of boundless basileiolatry and optimism.
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Basileiolatry means (chiefly in figurative use) Worship of the king..
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At Westminster the established religion is Basileiolatry.
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