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n. - The worship of creatures.

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Usage examples (16)
  • If we accept the animal-worship and sacrificial communion theory, many a
  • These curious relics of the animal-worship of former times scarcely exist among the Makololo.
  • The different Bechuana tribes are named after certain animals, showing probably that in former times they were addicted to animal-worship like the ancient Egyptians.
  • De Brosses 'work had raised again the enduring problem for eighteenth-century thought of how to explain the discomforting evidence for Egyp - tian animal-worship or...
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