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Definition of "sun-worship" []

  • The worship or adoration of the sun as the symbol of the deity, as the most glorious object in nature, or as the source of light and neat; heliolatry. See fire-worship. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "sun-worship" in a sentence
  • "(I see them less as a shameful display of careless sun-worship and more of a comparative tool to see how brown I really am.)"
  • "“Why must you perform this barbaric sun-worship nonsense?” he said, pacing."
  • "This arc is found with peculiar appropriateness upon a gold coin, since it is a symbol of the old sun-worship, or of Apollo, under whose auspices gold coins were originally issued."