idolater

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Such, too, is the fascination of speculation respecting the man behind the pen that someone, biographer or scandalmonger or idolater, is rather more than likely to tell the world about him.

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

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

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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 calls the other "bigot," who retorts by calling out "idolater," or perhaps "fanatic;" and the phrases are bandied about with the gusto and fervor of Billingsgate—the meaning of the whole is, "You're another!"

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various