artolatry means bread-worship (the worship of the bread at Eucharist). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “artolatry” is a great word
ARTOLATRY — [Noun] The worship of the consecrated Eucharistic bread as Christ's body, often as a pejorative charge of misplaced devotion. From Ancient Greek ἄρτος (ártos, "bread") + -latry (from λατρεία (latreía, "worship")). Unlike "transubstantiation," which names the doctrine of change, or "idolatry," a sweeping condemnation of false images, artolatry precisely isolates the act of veneration directed at the physical host itself. It is the glint of candlelight on a monstrance, the profound silence of a genuflection, and the fervent gaze fixed upon a disc of unleavened flour and water—a word that dissects the boundary where profound faith, to a critical eye, might curdle into a fixation on the vessel rather than its intended passenger.
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- Bread-worship (the worship of the bread at Eucharist).