WORD OF THE DAY: LOGOLATRY

LOGOLATRY

​NOUN
worship of words; 
unreasonable regard for words or for verbal truth ...a1834

ETYMOLOGY
from Greek λόγος (word) + -latry

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1834 - see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
"...What is the whole system from Philo to Plotinus, and thence to Proclus inclusively, but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms? In Proclus it is Logolatry run mad..."
From: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge