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单词 grammatolatry
释义 grammatolatry|græməˈtɒlətrɪ|
[f. Gr. γραµµατο-, combining form of γράµµα letter + λατρεία worship: see -latry.]
The worship of letters; adherence to the letter (of Scripture). So grammaˈtolator [cf. idolator], a stickler for the forms of words.
1847Buch tr. Hagenbach's Hist. Doctr. II. 230 This rigid adherence to the very letter of Scripture (Grammatolatry).1869Southern Rev. July 42 Webster and Trench are both guilty of grammatolatry, in regarding certain changes in words as ‘details of spelling’.Ibid., As a grammatolator he follows certain dictionaries..in suppressing a useful word pronounced pleat, by making it sound like plate, because book-makers present it under the form of ‘plait’.1871R. D. Owen Debatable Land 99 The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images; grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.
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