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
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