woman-worship


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Noun1.woman-worship - the worship of women
gynaeolatry, gyneolatry
idolatry, veneration, cultism, devotion - religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
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There, in the twelfth century, under a delightful climate and in a region of enchanting beauty, had arisen a luxurious civilization whose poets, the troubadours, many of them men of noble birth, had carried to the furthest extreme the woman-worship of medieval chivalry and had enshrined it in lyric poetry of superb and varied sweetness and beauty.
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