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US
/aɪˈdɑɫətɹəs/
]
[ UK /ˈaɪdəlˌætɹəs/ ]
[ UK /ˈaɪdəlˌætɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- blindly or excessively devoted or adoring
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relating to or practicing idolatry
idolatrous worship
How To Use idolatrous In A Sentence
- “Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile. Westward Ho!
- He has called capitalism 'an economy of exclusion by an idolatrous system of money'. Times, Sunday Times
- -- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets. Rob Roy — Volume 01
- It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
- This was that host of heaven which the Jews idolatrously worshipped: chap. viii. Pneumatologia
- As it has done on four prior occasions, the Senate should shelve this most dangerous and idolatrous assault on our civil and religious liberties.
- Only idolatrous devotion could keep such brilliant minds from acknowledging the irrationality of crediting the blind force of nature with such teleological precision.
- Many were torn up as idolatrous or for their metal content - their 'brass' is roughly 75 per cent copper. Times, Sunday Times
- Since pilgrimage to Mecca is one of the pillars of Islam, turning Mecca, and the black rock the muslims so idolatrously worship, into a nuclear wasteland will destroy their cult. Wise words from Hamas....
- What was relevant, however, I think, is that if the leading and most influential Catholic weekly in Poland, which has close ties with the Church hierarchy and which has been shaping public opinion of the Catholic community since 1945, can be qualified as "idolatrously philo-Semitic," it gives — I presume — some kind of evidence that something did substantially change in Poland as far as the Catholic attitude toward the Jews is concerned. 'Shoah' and Poland