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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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
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
We pursue the same end,—progressive improvement, association, transformation of the corrupted medium in which we are now living, the overthrow of all idolatries, shams, lies, and conventionalities.
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake
Now all my family have been brought up as chapel folk, Primitive Methodists, and I've been trained to have a horror of superstition and idolatries, and see the folly of it.
From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Bernard Partridge
