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Jun 16, 2020

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Words made with combining forms

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lithophone
aischrolatreia
henotheism
hyponym
geratology

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

aischrolatreia

PRONUNCIATION:

(eye-skroh-luh-TREE-uh)

MEANING:

noun: Excessive devotion to filth or obscenity.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Greek aischro- (shameful or ugly) + -latreia (worship). Earliest documented use: 1912.

USAGE:

“His beauty worship finished in aischrolatreia.”
Frank Crane; Adventures in Common Sense; John Lane Company; 1916.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

H. sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. -Joyce Carol Oates, writer (b. 16 Jun 1938)

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