idolater

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Although hated by Orthodox Jews as a Hellenistic idolater, Herod expanded the Temple and adorned it with marble and gold.

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One Per�n idolater had dragged a great, 100-lb. wooden cross from seaside Mar del Plata 300 miles away.

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Consequently he has been denounced as a "traitor," "idolater," "conspirator."

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For Ibsen, as later for an Ibsen idolater named James Joyce, exile was creation's catalyst.

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But how are we to understand the idolater who adores, and claims actual divinity for, an emanation from his own brain and the brains of a certain number of like-minded persons?

From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by Archer, William