filiopietism

Nor for that matter was the mythmaking and filiopietism in which black and white scholars had indulged when motivated by the impulse for compensatory exaggeration.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

Nor for that matter was the mythmaking and filiopietism in which black and white scholars had indulged when motivated by the impulse for compensatory exaggeration.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

He avoids the error of filiopietism that too often afflicts such efforts, but neither does he dismiss the moral concerns that underlay such social teaching.

Mises Dailies 2009

In the end, studying the history of communism should be neither an exercise in filiopietism, the excessive veneration of ancestors, nor of demonology, the classification of malevolent spirits.

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