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Definition of Idolism
1. n. The worship of idols.
Definition of Idolism
1. Noun. (obsolete) The worship of idols. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idolism
1. idolatry [n -S] - See also: idolatry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idolism
Literary usage of Idolism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lay Sermons by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1852)
"... accordingly as the predisposition of the patient may chance to be. If fanaticism
be as a fire in the flooring of the Church, the idolism of the ..."
2. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown (1824)
"In one of the Anniversary Orations of Sir William Jones, of which the subject is
the philosophy of the Asiatics, he informs us that a system of idolism, ..."
3. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown (1822)
"•which the subject is the philosophy of the Asiatics, he informs us that a system
of idolism, very similar to that of Berkeley, is to be found in the ..."
4. Scientific Materialism and Ultimate Conceptions by Sidney Billing (1879)
"Whatever may be the idolism of the address, theology is an idealized idolism,
whatever more it may be. In cultured minds the religious idea generally ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1837)
"... which sometimes enrich, sometimes disfigure the older Gothic buildings ; this
idolism, if we refrain from the stronger and more invidious term idolatry, ..."
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