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Definition of Demonolatry

1. Noun. The acts or rites of worshiping devils.

Definition of Demonolatry

1. n. The worship of demons.

Definition of Demonolatry

1. Noun. Worship of demons. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Demonolatry

Literary usage of Demonolatry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The demonolatry published by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. I think I proved in that work that the demonolatry of the ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"The demonolatry published by the Society for the Propagation of tho Gospel. ... The Buddhists of Ceylon seein to have borrowed their demonolatry from the ..."

3. Religious Duty by Frances Power Cobbe (1865)
"SECTION XL demonolatry. THE distinction between idolatry and demonolatry is this : that while idolatry worships an imperfectly righteous God, a being whose ..."

4. Ancient Christianity and the Doctrines of the Oxford Tracts for the Times by Isaac Taylor (1839)
"THE HYPOTHESIS OF CHURCH PRINCIPLES EXEMPLIFIED IN THE INSTANCE OF THE ANCIENT demonolatry. A TREATISE on the portentous subject now before us—the ancient ..."

5. India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and by David Oliver Allen (1856)
"... demonolatry. The Hindus are very superstitious in respect to spiritual beings, who are supposed to have the power and the disposition to interfere in ..."

6. Sabbath evening readings on the New Testament by John Cumming (1860)
"APOSTASY—ITS BRANDS—demonolatry—LIES AND HYPOCRISY— A SEARED CONSCIENCE—FORBIDDING TO MARRY—PROTESTANT PREACHING. IN the last chapter we read the ..."

7. Travels Amongst the Todas: Or The Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India by William Elliot Marshall, George Uglow Pope (1873)
"... to a God—Believe in Transmigration — Callous on demonolatry — Influenced in religious matters by other Races— Todas of Turanian stage of culture. CHAT. ..."

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