Meaning of archæolatry | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“China—a world within itself, a world once far ahead probably of all contemporaries—has been effectually stereotyped, or rather petrified, by its own incrustation of pride and archæolatry, while all the rest of the world has outstripped and eclipsed it in every item of national greatness and social advancement.”

“It is a curious fact that at the time when this archæolatry, to coin a word, was at its height, the Venus of Milo and the Hermes were still slumbering under the ruins piled over them by barbarian hands, and the works of Phidias were unknown to artists or connoisseurs, and were made targets of by Turkish soldiery.”

“Archæolatry, avarice, and political power form a threefold cord which will not be easily broken.”

“On no other ground could the “archæolatry,” which we have found almost universal, be maintained for a moment.”

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