In 7 as L. autolatria. [f. Gr. αὐτο- self + λατρεία worship.] Self-worship.
a. 1625. Boys, Wks. (1630), 453. That insolent cariage of such spirits … is rather autolatria, worshipping themselves.
1866. Ld. Strangford, Selection (1869), II. 300. The sympathetic American would have been rescued from his sty of epicurean autolatry by devotion to the great masterwork of mystic transcendentalism in the East.
1871. Farrar, Witn. Hist., i. 22, note. The autolatry of Max Stirner, with its motto, Quisque sibi Deus.
