Zoolatry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /zoʊˈɑlətɹi/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Zoolatry is a noun meaning The worship of animals.
Meaning
The worship of animals.
Example Sentences
Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.
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.
Word Forms
- zoolatries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include zootheism, zoolater, zoolatria, theriolatry, zootheist, zoism.
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