bibliolater

bib·li·ol·a·try

(bĭb′lē-ŏl′ə-trē)

n.

1. Excessive adherence to a literal interpretation of the Bible.

2. Extreme devotion to or concern with books.

bib′li·ol′a·ter n.

bib′li·ol′a·trous adj.

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bibliolater

(ˌbɪblɪˈɒlətə)

n

1. (Bible) someone who reveres the Bible

2. a person who shows excessive admiration for a book

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bibliolater, bibliolatrist

a person who is excessively fond of books. See also bible.

See also: Books

a person who respects the Bible excessively and interprets it literally.

See also: Bible

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He was not a bibliolater, but he understood the persuasive power, the potential iconoclasm, of literature.

The Riverside Milton

For example, bibliolaters failed to see that the Book of Job was a dialogue and treated the "insufferable half-truths" of Job's comforters as of equal value with Job's own "pathetic appeals and close and powerful reasoning" (Coleridge 54).

Chesterton's new style in apologetics

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