Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Adoration of the Virgin Mary. See
Mariolatry .
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The one may be likened to the Greek spirit, with its intense love of beauty and intense enjoyment of life, physical and temporal, but adding the apotheosis of woman, which it derives from the Teuton; the other, to the Christian spirit of self-sacrifice, with the addition also of the apotheosis of woman in the form of virgin-worship.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1903
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