"epeolatry" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1906, Patrick Augustine Sheehan, “Emerson: Free-Thought in America”, in Early Essays and Lectures, Longmans, Green, and Company, page 45:",
          "text": "It is said that the first requisite for a successful politician is to be able to invent nicknames for an adversary; and before now a neatly turned expression has overthrown Governments in France. Epeolatry is the fashion of the day.",
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          "text": "I read my dictionary for a few more minutes, until tiredness eventually brought my epeolatry to an end for the day.",
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