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How to pronounce idolatry in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms idol worship
Type of worship
Has types bibliolatry, grammatolatry, iconolatry, symbol-worship, bible-worship, symbololatry, verbolatry, word-worship, symbolatry
Derivation idolater, idolatrous

Examples of idolatry

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Therefore, Wicca is seen as a type of pantheism, or in biblical terms, idolatry.
From the buffalonews.com
But one of the problems with idolatry is that it gives them less than their due.
From the economist.com
Idolatry also reduces idols to nothing more than vehicles for their worshippers.
From the economist.com
Sean Lennon has little time for the blinkered idolatry that attends his father.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The Bible is full of God slagging off idolatry, including those who follow him.
From the guardian.co.uk
Stalin worshippers were well rewarded for their idolatry, especially in academia.
From the forbes.com
Then she will not make an imperfect man for her god, and thus sink to idolatry.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They claim that there no Biblical support for doing so and regard it as idolatry.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Harding believes Eve's narcissism and obsession with herself constitutes idolatry.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
  • The worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God
  • (idolatrous) relating to or practicing idolatry; "idolatrous worship"
  • (idolatrous) blindly or excessively devoted or adoring
  • (IDOLATERS) Those who worship someone or something other than the true and living God.
  • From the Greek: worship of a false god.
  • In philosophical terms, the absolutizing of the relative. Theologically, the equating of a temporal object with an eternal divinity.
  • The state of giving top priority to some thing or activity or "god" other than the one, true God of Abraham. ...
  • The divinization of a creature in place of God; the substitution of some one (or thing) for God; worshiping a creature (even money, pleasure, or power) instead of the Creator.