Noun: arborolatry
Sample Sentences
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It is now generally supposed that the forbidden fruit was a kind of citrus, but certain facts connected with arborolatry seem to me to disprove this opinion. [1873, C. Stanliand Wake, “The influence of the phallic idea in the religions of antiquity”, in Journal of anthropology:]
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Trcesof this arborolatry still exist everywhere, both in Moslem and Christian countries; and even the Persians, who abhorred images as much as the Hebrews ever did, rendered homage to certain trees. [1894, John McClintock, Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume 4, page 241:]
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The Seven Sins of Archaeology: (1) Mono-Arborolatry: Worshipping one particular tree above the forest[…] [2006, Stephen H. Lekson, The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon, page 43:]
Nouns inflected like arborolatry
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin arbor (“tree”) + -latry. See: Latin Nouns '
arbor'.