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Word-worship   /wərd-wˈərʃəp/   Listen
Word-worship

noun
1.
The worship of words.  Synonyms: grammatolatry, verbolatry.






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"Word-worship" Quotes from Famous Books



... their style should be injured, and Professor Saintsbury[26] mentions the case of a French author, Paul de Saint-Victor, who "used, when sitting down to write, to put words that had struck his fancy at intervals over the sheet, and write his matter in and up to them." These are instances of that word-worship run mad which has not infrequently led to dire results, inasmuch as it has tended to engender the belief that statesmanship is synonymous with fine writing or perfervid oratory. The oratory in which Demosthenes excelled, Professor Bury says,[27] "was one of the ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring



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