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English
Etymology
Ancient Greek βασιλε(ύς) (basile(ús), “king”) + English -latry (from the Ancient Greek λατρεία (latreía, “worship”); compare basilean, basileiolatry, and basilolatry.
Pronunciation
Noun
basileolatry (uncountable)
- (rare) basileiolatry
1938, Robert Briffault, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, pages 114–115:Before the Reform Bill anything resembling the neurosis of English Basileolatry was even more completely unknown.
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