1.
[syn: bibliolatry, Bible-worship]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bibliolatry \Bib`li*ol"a*try\ (b[i^]b`l[i^]*[o^]l"[.a]*tr[y^]),
n. [Gr. bibli`on book + latrei`a service, worship, latrey`ein
to serve.]
Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic
divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over
that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an
excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.
--Coleridge. --F. W. Newman.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bibliolatry
n 1: the worship of the Bible [syn: bibliolatry, Bible-
worship]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "bibliolatry":
Sabbatarianism, bibliomania, bigotry, bluestockingism,
book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore,
charismatic gift, charismatic movement, charismatic renewal,
classical scholarship, classicism, culture, dogmatism, donnishness,
eruditeness, erudition, evangelicalism, fanaticism, fundamentalism,
gift of tongues, glossolalia, hideboundness, humanism,
humanistic scholarship, hyperorthodoxy, intellectualism,
intellectuality, learnedness, letters, literacy, literalism,
overdevoutness, overpiousness, overreligiousness,
overrighteousness, overzealousness, pedantism, pedantry,
pentecostalism, precisianism, purism, puritanicalness, puritanism,
reading, revival, revivalism, sabbatism, sanctimony, scholarship,
scripturalism, staunchness, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness,
strict interpretation, strictness, zeal, zealotism, zealotry,
zealousness