[f. Gr. λόγο-ς word + -LATRY.] ‘Worship’ of words; unreasonable regard for words or for verbal truth.
1810. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1839), IV. 305. [Neo-Platonism is] but one fanciful process of hypostasizing logical conceptions and generic terms. In Proclus it is Logolatry run mad.
1846. E. Miall, in Nonconf., VI. 45. Many good people are exceedingly prone to logolatry. They get hold of a good word, representing a thing good in itself, and then conclude that every object to which that word may be applied, is a good thing.
1890. Jrnl. Educ., 1 March, 145/1. An almost morbid tendency to literal truthfulness, or, as the writer calls it, ‘logolatry.’
