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idolatry
/aɪˈdɑ.lə.tɹi/
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What does idolatry mean?
noun
- The worship of idols.
- (figuratively) The excessive admiration of somebody or something.
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IPA pronunciation
/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.
Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.
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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."
I thought as I walked in the woods and mused on any friends, why should I play with them this game of idolatry?
Nor is there wanting a great catastrophe which destroys the whole Adite nation, except a very few who escape because they had renounced idolatry.