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Definition
the worship of idols (physical objects representative of gods)
or:
excessive admiration and devotion to something or someone
or:
excessive admiration and devotion to something or someone
- For long hours, detaining my hand, would she pour out before me the overflowing of a heart whose more than passionate devotion amounted to idolatry.1 — Ligeia (38% in)
- And, indeed, if ever she, the wan and the misty-winged Ashtophet of idolatrous Egypt, presided, as they tell, over marriages ill-omened, then most surely she presided over mine.1 — Ligeia (6% in)
- I revelled in recollections of her purity, of her wisdom, of her lofty, her ethereal nature, of her passionate, her idolatrous love.1 — Ligeia (64% in)
There are no more uses of "idolatry" in Selected Tales by Poe.
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