单词 | onolatry |
释义 | onolatryn. rare. Worship of the donkey or ass. Also in extended use: excessive admiration for or devotion to foolishness or a foolish thing. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of animals > of asses onolatry1903 1903 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 16 203 Onolatry. Reinach, S.: Le culte de l'âne... Treats of the charges of worshipping a donkey made by the pagans against the Jews and early Christians. 1924 I. Babbitt Rousseau & Romanticism iv. 144 Nietzsche has depicted the leaders of the nineteenth century as engaged in a veritable onolatry or ass-worship. 1953 E. Sitwell Gardeners & Astronomers 28 The crowd's onolatries Echo that laughter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1903 |
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