idolatrous
adjective
worshiping idols.
idolatrously
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a word derived from
idolatrous.
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a word derived from
idolatry.
Example Sentences
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Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf.
From Time Magazine Archive
They worshipped the sun, not idolatrously, but as the golden crown of the god whom all such infants see almost as plainly as the sun.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
In her life she loved but once and then, idolatrously.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
She scarcely ever dares to raise her eyes, and then only to look at her lord, whom she loves idolatrously.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
His metropolitan experiences did not answer to his liking the particular question, Do we bind the woman down to us idolatrously by making a wife of her?
From The Egoist by George Meredith
