Meaning of sun worshipper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who reveres the Sun as a deity.
2. A person who enjoys exposure to sunlight; an avid sunbather.
   idiomatic

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Examples

“Here Christian, or Jew, Sun-worshipper or Pagan implore their several gods unmolested.”

“He had fallen into the hands of descendants of the ancient sun worshippers. His seeming rescue⟳ by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own⟳, and the priestess had come⟳ from the inner temple to save⟳ him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save⟳ him as a human offering to their flaming deity.”

“Moses warns his followers against the allure of sun- and star-worship; and Ezekiel mentions seeing, in a vision, twenty-five men of Judah worshipping the sun. Indeed, so powerful was the incentive to worship⟳ the sun, and so great was its rivalry to the worship⟳ of Jehovah, that it was found necessary to take⟳ the most drastic measures towards its suppression. Sun-worshippers were threatened with death by stoning.”

“"The light⟳ hurts you?" she said, for the sun was coming into the room. "Change⟳ places with me, I am a sun worshipper."”

“A bikini . . . tends to slip⟳ and slide⟳ a bit in the surf. But for a die-hard sun worshipper, a two-piece suit⟳ is the next best thing to nothing at all.”

“Previous research⟳ by Rees has confirmed what sun worshippers already knew: that the upper back is much more likely to tan than the legs.”

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