idolatry
noun
the religious worship of idols.
idolatries
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pluralof idolatry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Read is an atheist of religious temperament who has achieved the rare feat of transferring his natural reverence from God to God's creation without falling into current humanistic idolatries about man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Questioning the shibboleths of current idolatries, he moves many to think, to question and to differ.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Taking his belief with him into the world of history, the Transcendentalist discovered the faith in God beneath all errors, delusions, idolatries and superstition.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
We pursue the same end—progressive improvement, association, transformation of the corrupted medium in which we are now living, overthrow of all idolatries, shams, lies, and conventionalities.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake
