odium philologicum

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Etymology

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Contemporary Latin coinage based on odium theologicum.

Noun

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odium philologicum (uncountable)

  1. hatred between philologists over academic points of disagreement
    • Jack Arthur Walter Bennett (1982) The Humane Medievalist: And Other Essays in English Literature and Learning, from Chaucer to Eliot[1], Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, GGKEY:552YP7WE2FC, page 283:
      a Renascence scholar had to justify himself, even if that meant denigrating other mens'[sic] learning. To the odium theologicum of the period was added odium philologicum. Sic Shavius putride, says a late scholiast: « thus Shaw stinkingly » — he is referring to a rival commentator's interpretation.
    • George Steiner (1987) George Steiner: A Reader[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 199:
      Odium pholologicum is a notorious infirmity. Scholars will lash out at one another with unbridled malignancy over what appear to the laity to be minuscule, often risible points of debate.
    • Christopher Stray (2018) From odium to bellum: classical scholars at war in Europe and America, 1800–1924[3], volume 10, number 4, Classical Receptions Journal, →DOI, retrieved 1 April 2019:
      The scholarly wars between British and German academics in World War I are to be seen in the context of a more general odium philologicum which can be traced back to the growth of nationalism in the nineteenth century.