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Definition of Idolatry
1. Noun. Religious zeal; the willingness to serve God.
Generic synonyms: Worship
Specialized synonyms: Bible-worship, Bibliolatry, Grammatolatry, Verbolatry, Word-worship, Symbol-worship, Symbolatry, Symbololatry, Anthropolatry, Worship Of Man, Gynaeolatry, Gyneolatry, Woman-worship, Lordolatry, Miracle-worship, Thaumatolatry, Place-worship, Topolatry
Derivative terms: Devote, Idolatrous
2. Noun. The worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God.
Generic synonyms: Worship
Specialized synonyms: Iconolatry
Derivative terms: Idolater, Idolatrous
Definition of Idolatry
1. n. The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.
Definition of Idolatry
1. Noun. The worship of idols. ¹
2. Noun. The admiration of somebody or something. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idolatry
1. the worship of idols [n -TRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idolatry
Literary usage of Idolatry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"Well, but idolatry does fraud to God, by refusing to Him,and conferring on
others,His honours; so that to fraud it also conjoins contumely. ..."
2. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester, Massachusetts Peace Society (1827)
"CLAY ON MILITARY idolatry. " Undoubtedly there are other and many dangers to
liberty besides ... Military idolatry" is an undue esteem of military men, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The extirpation of idolatry^ '* might have been justified by the established
principles of intolerance : but the hostile sects, which alternately reigned in ..."
4. The Practical Works by David Clarkson (1865)
"This is the idolatry of the heathens, and part of the idolatry of papists. 2.
Secret and soul idolatry, when the mind and heart is set upon anything more ..."
5. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.: Late Head-master of by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1910)
"I am very anxious to express my repentance of that passage in my pamphlet, which
you allude to, " raving about idolatry," &c. I mean my repentance of its ..."
6. Tertullian by Tertullian (1842)
"DB I. THE principal sin of mankind, the chief guilt of the \'H°LI' world, the
whole cause of its judgment, is idolatry. For ~ though each separate crime ..."
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