self-idolatry
- a word derived from idolatry.
Example Sentences
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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 Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
Specially does he recognise and mourn his "self-idolatry," which has isolated him from others, and confined him within the close and vitiated circle of his own selfhood.
From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur
It was abject self-idolatry, thought Balder, masquerading as a lofty form of idealization.
From Idolatry A Romance by Hawthorne, Julian
Who would be the highest, in virtue of the largest mistake, of the profoundest self-idolatry!
From Home Again by MacDonald, George
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 Lord, John
