Definition of "heliolatry" []

• Worship of the sun. (noun)

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• "Too many of them apply to it facile generalizations, such as "heliolatry," "animism,""
• "But she misspelled "heliolatry" in Round 22, and Kyle correctly spelled "dirigible" and then "nectarivorous," for good measure."
• "Widespread over the earth has been, and still is, the worship of the sun; some mythologists, indeed, would go too far and explain almost every feature of savage and barbarous religion as a sun-myth or as smacking of heliolatry."