Usually means: Worship or veneration of crosses.
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  3. staurolatry: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  4. staurolatry: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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▸ noun:  (Christianity) idolatrous worship of the cross or crucifix

Similar:
Christolatry, hierolatry, artolatry, Stations of the Cross, crusadism, iconodulism, Mariolatrie, holy cross, staurotheke, Mariolatry, more...

Opposite:
iconoclasm, iconoclasticism, image-breaking

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Similar:
Christolatry, hierolatry, artolatry, Stations of the Cross, crusadism, iconodulism, Mariolatrie, holy cross, staurotheke, Mariolatry, more...

Opposite:
iconoclasm, iconoclasticism, image-breaking



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