idolatrous

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Idolatrous temples have crumbled at her touch, and guilt owned its deformity in her presence.

From The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery by Thompson, L. S.

Idolatrous rites increased and people devoted themselves to the worship of huacas ... each village had its huaca.

From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia

Idolatrous monuments were destroyed, and the iconoclasts continued their devastations until the death of Theophilus in 842.

From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Addison, Julia de Wolf Gibbs

Idolatrous habit was strong; the pedestal trembled, but it was a far cry to its overthrow, and she wrestled stubbornly to defend inconsistencies that humiliated and staggered her.

From A Speckled Bird by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

We look up to the stars tonight, Idolatrous of them, And dream that Heaven is in sight, And each a ray of purest light From some celestial gem In her bright diadem.

From Poems Vol. IV by Howard, Hattie