vexillo- + -latry
vexillolatry (uncountable)
- (theology) The worship of a flag or flags.
2000, Douglas Fethering, Travels by Night[1], →ISBN, pages 42–43:Beginning when I was about twelve, I railed, silently, against having to begin school each day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, with right hand over heart, if you can imagine such shameless vexillolatry.