Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Extravagant devotion to or worship of woman.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The adoration or worship of woman.

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  • noun The adoration or worship of women.

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  • noun the worship of women

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • The current gyneolatry is as far outside his scheme of things as the current program of rewards and punishments, sins and virtues, causes and effects.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • The practice of avoiding marital responsibility is frequently condemned by the medical press, even by the pulpit; but while M. D.'s and D. D.'s make a specialty of both gynecology and gyneolatry, neither seem to understand the spirit in which these sins against hygienics are committed.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

  • Looked at with the scientific eye it is sheer gyneolatry, -- the chivalrous sentiment inflated with poetic wind, like a bubble, to the utmost possible degree of iridescent tenuity.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886

  • Amorally, a enchanting car chaldaean sale gyneolatry rhapis to be the way to go in vibrato to untrustiness the topical amuck slap abstracter.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Christ was a prohibitionist), the Ellen Key of the new gyneolatry and the Signorina Montessori of the magical Method.

    A Book of Prefaces 1918

  • Looked at with the scientific eye it is sheer gyneolatry, ” the chivalrous sentiment inflated with poetic wind, like a bubble, to the utmost possible degree of iridescent tenuity.

    The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901

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