babyolatry

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English

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Etymology

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From baby +‎ -o- +‎ -latry.

Noun

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babyolatry (uncountable)

  1. An obsession with babies or infants
    • 1926, Milwaukee Public Schools: Professional pamphlet series: Issue 12:
      There will be as there must be much baby talk in the nurseries of a people so far gone in “babyolatry” as are we Americans.
    • 1999, Andrew Gurr, Phillipa Hardman, Lionel Kelly, The Text as Evidence: Revising Editorial Principles:
      To take one small example, Swinburne's famous celebration of Marian's baby in Aurora Leigh (mentioned on p. 141) stems not so much from a contemporary 'glorification' of maternity as his own much-documented and idiosyncratic 'babyolatry'.
    • 2005, Aldo Naouri, Fathers and Mothers:
      I must say I prefer living breathing parents who communicate with their children, whatever the quality of the message delivered, to parents who have been converted to the stupid and harmful religion of babyolatry!