Christomania

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English

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Etymology

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From Christ +‎ -o- +‎ -mania.

Noun

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Christomania (uncountable)

  1. A fanatical devotion to Jesus Christ.
    • 1907, Gerald Massey, Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World, page 535:
      Only minds completely crazed or fatally confused by the current Christomania would suppose that the details of the story, which is as old at least as the cult of Ptah in Memphis, were derived from the "historic" version []
    • 1912, Augustus Hopkins Strong, Miscellanies, volume 1, page 311:
      I have been accused of Christomania. But I am not mad, my noble friends; I speak only the words of truth and soberness.

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