staurolater means an idolatrous worshipper of the cross or crucifix. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Why “staurolater” is a great word
STAUROLATER — [Noun] An idolatrous worshipper of the cross or crucifix. From the Greek stauros ("cross") and -latrēs ("worshipper"). Unlike a crucifer, who carries a cross in ceremony, or an iconodule, who defends the veneration of images, a staurolater stands accused of a specific, damning displacement—from the figure sacrificed upon the wood to the wood itself. It is the worn-smooth wood kissed until it darkens, the votive offerings piled at a wayside calvary, the prayer whispered not through but to the carved beams—a testament to the human instinct to localize the divine, and the perennial anxiety that the symbol has consumed the thing it symbolizes.
Etymology
From stauro- + -later.
noun
- An idolatrous worshipper of the cross or crucifix