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单词 geolatry
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geolatryn.

Brit. /dʒɪˈɒlətri/, U.S. /dʒiˈɑlətri/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: geo- comb. form, -latry comb. form.
Etymology: < geo- comb. form + -latry comb. form. In sense 2 after German †Gäolatrie (1857 in the passage translated in quot. 1862).Compare post-classical Latin geolatria worship of the earth (1690 or earlier); the following shows an apparently isolated borrowing of this:1705 Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) 24 2025 The sixth Chapter treats concerning the Northern Geolatria, or Earth-worship.
Now rare.
1. The idolizing of geology. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
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1860 Literary Churchman 2 Jan. 3/1 We cannot but express our gratitude for such a protest, in such a place..against the ‘geo-latry’ of a small party.
2. Worship of the earth. In later use also: intense or excessive regard for the earth.
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society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of the earth
geolatry1862
1862 N. Darnell tr. J. J. I. von Döllinger Gentile & Jew in Courts Temple of Christ I. ii. i. 67 Where man was surrounded by luxuriant vegetation and the magnificence of a richly furnished soil..geolatry [Ger. Gäolatrie] took its rise.
1870 G. W. Cox Mythol. Aryan Nations I. 95 To this succeeded astrolatry in the East, and geolatry in the West.
1922 A. Le Roy Relig. Primitives (1923) vi. 175 If these writers speak to us of phytolatry, litholatry, hydrolatry, pyrolatry, geolatry, astrolatry, and zoolatry, we will understand.
1972 Internat. Organization 26 406 From an uttermost neglect of ecological problems public opinion in the United States has swung to an outright ‘geolatry’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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