-olatry, representing Gr. -λατρεία worship, as in εἰδωλολατρεία IDOLATRY. Other examples, legitimately formed on possible Gr. types, are angelolatry, astrolatry, bibliolatry, cosmolatry, demonolatry, grammatolatry, Mariolatry, q.v. Hence, in humorous nonce-use, have been formed divers hybrids, as babyolatry (q.v.), crochetolatry, dutiolatry, lordolatry. Corresponding to this is the termination -(o)later, representing Gr. -λατρης, as in idolater, bibliolater.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, iii. (1892), 13. How should it be otherwise in a country where Lordolatry is part of our creed?
1859. F. E. Paget, Curate of Cumb., etc. 330. She was immolating health and spirits in crochetolatry.
1891. W. D. Howells, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 770/2. The question of how far the Puritan civilization has carried the cult of the personal conscience into mere dutiolatry.
