Where are the absurdities of youthful woman-worship held up to such derision as in Pendennis 'love for Miss Costigan!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference

If, then, this woman-worship, this complexity of love, this self-debating, first comes into literature with Chretien de.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cligés. English] Reference

What Kaname doesn't seem to "get" about this whole woman-worship thing is that the worshiper's actions should match his sentiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-05-01] Reference

There, in the twelfth century, under a delightful climate and in a region of enchanting beauty, had arisen a luxurious civilization whose poets, the troubadours, many of them men of noble birth, had carried to the furthest extreme the woman-worship of medieval chivalry and had enshrined it in lyric poetry of superb and varied sweetness and beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Literature] Reference

In Comtism we find the latest development of woman-worship, wherein the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History] Reference

It is not necessary to censure their lack of so-called chivalrous woman-worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse] Reference

He thus becomes a type of the husbands of the Middle Age, and of the woman-worship of chivalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saint's Tragedy] Reference

Athene -- of perfect man-worship and woman-worship, stand out clear and round in the foreground against the misty distance of ancient times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Tales from the Norse] Reference

"You never can appreciate the 'countless blessings' until you are converted to woman-worship, my friend," said Claudius, evading the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference

As Professor Chamberlain has pointed out (345): "Among ourselves woman-worship nourishes among the well-to-do, but is almost, if not entirely, absent among the peasantry.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

On the other hand, there are persons not to be outdone in all loyalty and just respect for womankind, but by nature hard of head and haters of delusion, however charming, who not only repudiate the new woman-worship which so many sentimentalists and some philosophers are desirous of setting up, but, carrying their audacity further, deny even the natural equality of the sexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science & Education] Reference

On the other hand, there are persons not to be outdone in all loyalty and just respect for woman-kind, but by nature hard of head and haters of delusion, however charming, who not only repudiate the new woman-worship which so many sentimentalists and some philosophers are desirous of setting up, but, carrying their audacity further, deny even the natural equality of the sexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference

"woman-worship," as we might bunglingly translate a word for which in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference

They would appear also to have had some sort of woman-worship, for they held women in high honour, loved female sovereignty, and practised polyandry -- that is, each woman had several husbands. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference