idolatry
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- noun
- /aɪˈdɑːlətri/
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idolatría
- Many religious leaders warn that excessive focus on wealth can lead to idolatry rather than true faith.
- idolatry and false worship
- idolatry and polytheism
- idols and idolatry
Examples
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Christian polemics against idolatry and violence against pagan images continued past the period of early Christianity.
Academic text (2005) -
Ancient ethics is corrupted by the idolatry and superstition of the vulgar.
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Chinese who make it the god of their idolatry act as if the past had never existed.
Fiction book (2001) -
I come here to receive from you a tribute and to drive your people,... now lying in the darkness of idolatry, towards the Cross".
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Listen, art that doesn't have the presence of God in it is idolatry.
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Human dignity perished on the altar of idolatry.
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And God wished to punish the Philistines for their idolatry and their iniquity.
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The prohibition of idolatry was the one commandment that, in the biblical tradition, brooked no exceptions.
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The ancient cultures often practiced idolatry, creating physical representations of their gods.
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In modern society, some claim that celebrity worship can be a form of idolatry that distracts people from more important values.
Synonyms
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Praying to statues or pictures as if they were gods
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Belief that objects have special powers and deserve worship
Worship of religious images like pictures and statues
A practice of worshipping religious images like paintings or statues
Excessive worship of symbols like pictures or icons
A strong respect for objects or signs that stand for ideas
Giving too much value to symbols instead of what they stand for
A belief that people worship an object because they think it has magic power
How Worshipful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Idolatry comes from idol, a Greek word meaning 'image', and -latry, meaning 'worship'. So idolatry originally meant the worship of images or statues as gods.