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Words made with combining forms

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archaeolatry


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PRONUNCIATION:

(ar-kee-AH-luh-tree)

MEANING:

noun: Excessive reverence for the past: an earlier time, old customs, antiquity, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek archaeo- (ancient) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1853.

NOTES:

Do you idealize history, viewing it through a rose-tinted lens? Do you romanticize a supposedly glorious past or cling to traditions without questioning their relevance today? Perhaps you dismiss innovation, preferring old ways over progress. If so, you might be under the sway of archaeolatry.

USAGE:

“Although recourse to the classical past is hardly a criminal offense what the prosecutors were trying to foreground in this case was the connection between the party’s archaeolatry and Nazism.”
Eleftheria Ioannidou; Mythologies of Genesis and Neo-Nazi Palingenesis [rebirth]; Humanities (Basel, Switzerland); Aug 2022.

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