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Definition
the worship of idols (physical objects representative of gods)or:
excessive admiration and devotion to something or someone
More rarely, "idolatry" can mean "excessive admiration for someone or something".
- Her admiration borders on idolatry.
idolatry = the worship of an object as though it were a god
- The church has no cross because the congregation believes it encourages idolatry.
- Withdraw from the idolatry of the superfluous!Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
- he saw the city wholly given up to idolatry.Twain, Mark -- The Innocents Abroad
- Love was above all earthly considerations, and I loved Dora to idolatry, and Dora loved me.Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
- [the Jews believe] After several hundred years, because of rampant idolatry, God allowed Assyria to conquer Israel and exile its people.Judaism - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism (retrieved 05/20/06)
- Do not swear at all;
Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry,
And I'll believe thee.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - Had Washington been born in the days of idolatry, declared the Pennsylvania journal, he would be worshiped as a god.David G. McCullough -- 1776
- On the contrary, they have actually helped to build up his prestige by publishing brainless, idolatrous portraits.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- We particularly observed this idolatry near the river Arguna, at a city inhabited by Tartars and Russians, called Nerisinkey.Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamouring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence.Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
- Thou shalt be worshipp'd, kiss'd, lov'd, and ador'd, And, were there sense in his idolatry, My substance should be statue in thy stead.William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- The message was changed to a form of idolatry.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- Fear, idolatry, hoarding.Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
- They were ideas, to my young mind, of rebellion and independence, not of idolatry.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- They never join their voices in praise, and it would seem that they are among the profanest of the idolatrous.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- Love was above all earthly considerations, and I loved Dora to idolatry, and Dora loved me.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Scandalous Worship Of Images Besides the Idolatrous Worship of Images, there is also a Scandalous Worship of them; which is also a sin; but not Idolatry.Thomas Hobbes -- Leviathan
- The lady, indeed, bore a very fair likeness to a reverend effigy in some idolatrous shrine.Henry James -- The American
- I felt they were too idolatrous and monumental.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
idolatry = the worship of physical objects
idolatry = worship (of something on earth as though it were a god)
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