Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Moon-worship.

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Examples

  • And, however humiliating or disappointing the disclosure may prove, it will be established that some of the foremost Christian peoples of the world maintain luniolatry to this day, notwithstanding that they have the reproving light of the latest civilization.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • The American races practise luniolatry very generally.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • [232] This luniolatry the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg explains by a novel theory.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • [150] We have sought to place this Hebrew luniolatry beyond dispute, because so many Christians have supposed that "the chosen people" lived in unclouded light, and "the uncovenanted heathen" in outer and utter darkness.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • We design this chapter to be the completion of moon-worship, and at the same time an anticipation of those lunary superstitions which are but scattered leaves from luniolatry, the parent tree.

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

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