Epeolatry

//ɛpiˈɒlətɹi// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The worship of words. rare, uncountable

    "Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified."

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logolatrylogolatryverbolatry

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"Time, time only, can gradually wean us from our Epeolatry, or word-worship, by spiritualizing our ideas of the thing signified."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos, “word”) + -latry (“worship of”). The first citation of the word is from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in his 1860 book The Professor at the Breakfast-Table.

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