logolatryn.
/ləˈɡɒlətri/ ‘Worship’ of words; unreasonable regard for words or for verbal truth.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [noun] > love of words
verbomania1791
logolatrya1834
epeolatry1860
logophilia1980
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [noun] > disposition to accept
literalism1644
logolatrya1834
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 305 [Neo-Platonism is] but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms? In Proclus it is Logolatry run mad.
1846 E. Miall in Nonconf. VI. 45 Many good people are exceedingly prone to logolatry. They get hold of a good word, representing a thing good in itself, and then conclude that every object to which that word may be applied, is a good thing.
1890 Jrnl. Educ. Mar. 145/1 An almost morbid tendency to literal truthfulness, or, as the writer calls it, ‘logolatry’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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n.a1834- to pass in one's cheques us checks
- to pass in one's chips
- to pass in one's marble
- to pass in review
- to pass in silence
- to pass in warfare
- to pass master
- to pass muster
- to pass muster in a crowd
- to pass nothing at all
- to pass of
- to pass off
- to pass on
- to pass on earth
- to pass on mould
- to pass one's eye over
- to pass one's flag
- to pass one's persimmon
- to pass one's way
- to pass one's word
- to pass out
- to pass out cold
- to pass out like a light
- to pass out of
- to pass out of mind