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
"Honor is not worship. Respect is not idolatry."
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
“Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war,” the pope said during a prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 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
Questioning the shibboleths of current idolatries, he moves many to think, to question and to differ.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Locke, William John
The moment a man "acts for himself," says Emerson, "tossing the laws, the books, idolatries, and customs out of the window, we pity him no more, but thank and revere him."
From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John
Vocabulary lists containing idolatry
The Balcony Scene from "Romeo and Juliet"
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Warm-up, List 6
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