idolatry
noun
the religious worship of idols.
self-idolatry
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a word derived from
idolatry.
Example Sentences
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Arrogance of mind, irreverence, self-idolatry, blindness, follow in their course, and the whole nature loses its balance and becomes through pride a pitiful wreck.
From The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart
Hence, too, among the weak, whimsies, affectation, rude disregard of proprieties, slothful neglect of common duties, surrender to the claims of natural appetite, self-indulgence, self-absorption, and self-idolatry.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Margaret Fuller
Of course, riches were sought above everything, since these furnished the means of gratifying those pleasures which were most valued, or stimulating that vanity whose essence is self-idolatry.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by John Lord
Who would be the highest, in virtue of the largest mistake, of the profoundest self-idolatry!
From Home Again by George MacDonald
At bottom he was only a splenetic sceptic, sincere only in his self-idolatry.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
