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Etymology edit

cosmo- +‎ -latry

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cosmolatry (uncountable)

  1. Worship paid to the world.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      [] Polytheism , cosmolatry (or world-idolatry ), and creature-worship []
  2. Worship of the cosmos.

References edit

cosmolatry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.