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poetolatry

noun

Etymology

From poet + -o- + -latry, coined by C. S. Lewis in 1936.

  1. derived from ποιητής
  2. derived from poēta
  3. derived from poete
  4. inherited from poete
  5. formed as poetolatry — “poet + -o- + -latry”

Definitions

  1. Excessive or religious worship of poets.

    • There is yet another way in which Personal Heresy offends against personality; ... I am referring to the growth of what may be called Poetolatry.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for poetolatry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA