Meaning of epeolatry | Babel Free

Definitions

The worship of words.

rare, uncountable

Examples

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

“It is said that the first requisite for a successful politician is to be able to invent nicknames for an adversary; and before now a neatly turned expression has overthrown Governments in France. Epeolatry is the fashion of the day.”

“I read my dictionary for a few more minutes, until tiredness eventually brought my epeolatry to an end for the day.”

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