idolatry
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I do not envy anyone who has found themselves in a position where they feel the need to preemptively head off charges of idolatry.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2026
Some of those fans grew up and grew out of their pop-star idolatry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
"Honor is not worship. Respect is not idolatry."
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Anyone speaking of Kissinger’s sincerity will forgive me if I do not indulge in such idolatry.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2023
She must have looked into our eyes and seen the shining idolatry there and understood that she was trapped.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Questioning the shibboleths of current idolatries, he moves many to think, to question and to differ.
From Time Magazine Archive
Read is an atheist of religious temperament who has achieved the rare feat of transferring his natural reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The men worship strange goddesses and the women run after false gods, and all practice fascinating idolatries."
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
Because they hated the wickedness of the world, with its ruthless games and hideous idolatries, they were accused of hatred of the whole human race.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
Vocabulary lists containing idolatry
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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Warm-up, List 6
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