Silvia sends this in, calling it “a word for you”; is she trying to tell me something?
grammatolatry
PRONUNCIATION:
(gram-uh-TOL-uh-tree)
MEANING:
noun: The worship of words: regard for the letter while ignoring the spirit of something.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek gramma (letter) + -latry (worship).
USAGE:
“The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.”
Robert Dale Owen; The Debatable Land Between This World And the Next; Trubner and Co; 1871.
(From A.Word.a.Day)
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Dang, you’re quick! I just sent that.