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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And this coolheaded didact of "epic"theater and "alienation" effects was a sentimental idolater of Charlie Chaplin movies.

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

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And in this sense, which of us is not an idolater?

From The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), by Ruskin, John