Pronounced: puh-TEM(P)-kuhn-VIH-lij, noun
Notes: This word didn’t mean what I thought
Yesterday’s word
The word aischrolatreia means “excessive devotion to filth or obscenity”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1910s
Background / Comments
As I noted yesterday, an unpleasant word. It came from the Greek word aischro- (shameful; ugly) and -latreia (worship).
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