grammatolatry

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  1. The worship of words; reverence for literalism; in a figurative sense, concern for the letter with disregard of the spirit. The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images: grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry : … the letter killeth. R. D. Owen, Debatable Land, p. 145.

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  1. from Greek γράμμα(τ-), letter (see gram), + λατρεία, service, with allusion to idolatry.
 

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