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idolatry

/aɪˈdɑ.lə.tɹi/

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What does idolatry mean?

noun

  1. The worship of idols.
  2. (figuratively) The excessive admiration of somebody or something.

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/aɪˈdɑ.lə.tɹi/

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Anthropomorphism and idolatry constituted of necessity the faith of the mind in its youth, the theology of infancy and poesy.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of GovernmentProject Gutenberg ebook #360
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.
Martin LutherCommentary on the Epistle to the GalatiansTranslated by Theodore GraebnerProject Gutenberg ebook #1549
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Faber in his Pagan Idolatry says that all the gods of the ancients "melt insensibly into one, they are all equally the sun."
Eliza Burt GambleThe God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in ReligionProject Gutenberg ebook #639
I thought as I walked in the woods and mused on any friends, why should I play with them this game of idolatry?
Ralph Waldo EmersonEssays by Ralph Waldo EmersonProject Gutenberg ebook #16643
Nor is there wanting a great catastrophe which destroys the whole Adite nation, except a very few who escape because they had renounced idolatry.
Ignatius DonnellyAtlantis: The Antedeluvian WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #4032