gynecolatry

English

Etymology

From gyneco- +‎ -latry.

Noun

gynecolatry (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of gynolatry (“the worship of women”).
    • 2016, David Bentley Hart, A Splendid Wickedness and Other Essays, page 291:
      I was always capable of a more exalted view of woman, if not quite the fawning gynecolatry of some of my contemporaries.
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