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SERMONOLATRY — [Noun] Excessive or idolatrous devotion to sermons as the central, sacrosanct element of religious observance. From sermon, from Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun, ultimately from Latin sermō ("discourse, speech"), combined with the connective -o- and -latry, from Ancient Greek -λατρία (-latría), from λατρεία (latreía, "worship, service"). Unlike homiletics, the studied craft of preaching, or bibliolatry, the worship of the sacred page, sermonolatry is the uncritical veneration of the performed interpretation itself. It is the feverish transcription of every inflection into a margins-crammed notebook, the collected audio files hoarded like holy relics, and the profound disappointment that lingers after the final amen—a liturgy of attentiveness that mistakes the vessel for the vintage, the map for the territory, and the guide for the god.