idolatries
- plural of idolatry.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Holyoake, George Jacob
He talked rapidly, hinting at beliefs and idolatries, comparing West with East, and East with West, while he stood motionless, one hand upon the fence–earnest, sincere, strong in his request.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus
