What does epeolatry mean?
Epeolatry means (very rare) The worship of words..
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/ɛpiˈɒlətɹi/ · noun
(very rare) The worship of words..
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.
Use epeolatry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Epeolatry means (very rare) The worship of words..
Common synonyms include logolatry, verbolatry.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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