Idolatry

Definitions

1. The worship of idols.
   countable, uncountable
2. The excessive admiration of somebody or something.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The parish stank of idolatry, abominable rites were practiced in secret, and in all the bounds there was no one had a more evil name⟳ for the black traffic than one Alison Sempill, who bode at the Skerburnfoot.”

“Now the great obstacle in tracing the identity of any of the basic forms of worship⟳ lies in the vast number⟳ of names which appear⟳ in the ancient idolatries and mythologies, creating the illusion of a miscellany of gods, whereas many of these different names refer⟳ to the same deity. Thus the sun has been personified and worshipped under as many different names as there are nations on the surface of the earth.”

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