archeolatry

English

Noun

archeolatry (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of archæolatry
   • 1992, Nicos P. Mouzelis, Post-Marxist Alternatives: The Construction of Social Orders, →ISBN, page 112:

     The living culture was all but strangled by an obsessive archeolatry, and by the systematic attempt to create an artificial, 'pure' language (the so-called katharevousa) that, cleansed of all 'non-Greek' pollution, closely resembled its long-dead classical forebear.

   • 1998, Dimitris Keridis, Chryssostomos Sfatos, Greek Higher Education: Prospects for Reform, →ISBN, page 167:

     I also consider as defensive compartmentalization the obsessive archeolatry that has marked the Greek educational system from its very inception, and which often leads students to believe that anything worth knowing has already been discovered by their illustrious ancestors thousands of years ago.

   • 2015, Michael Greenhalgh, Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-century France, →ISBN:

     Fortunately, few scholars could be accused of such archeolatry, for they knew all too well that funding, security and, above all, interest on the part of the general public were lacking.