Meaning of gerontolatry | Babel Free

Definitions

Worship of old people.

uncountable

Examples

“Gerontolatry, an inevitable development of the many movements afoot to make the world safe for the old folks, has had a fine fling this goodwill season, and old folks' engagement-books, to say nothing of the old folks, have been full to bursting.”

“Because Russian literature is an integral part of European literature, it shares the latter's prejudices and displays a full spectrum of those commonplaces involving old age that are so familiar in the West; certainly there is none of the gerontolatry that is a notable feature of Far Eastern, especially Chinese, culture.”

“In which senses was Spartan society gerontocratic and gerontocentric? What were the roots and the symbols and what was the extent of gerontocracy and gerontolatry at Sparta?”

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