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
Educated in obscurity, trained to consider the fulfilment of domestic duties as the aim and end of her existence, there was little to feed the appetite for fame, or the indulgence of self-idolatry.
From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by An English Lady
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
It was the defect of her self-idolatry and concentration that she could not develop an international mind or fathom the mentality of other peoples.
From A Short History of the Great War by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
It was abject self-idolatry, thought Balder, masquerading as a lofty form of idealization.
From Idolatry A Romance by Julian Hawthorne
