idolatry
11Idolatry — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Idolatry >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 idolatry idolatry idolism Sgm: N 1 demonism demonism demonolatry Sgm: N 1 idol worship idol worship demon worship devil worship fire worship Sgm: N 1 zoolatry …
12idolatry — The cult surrounding a statue of a god or goddess. Such idols were common in Near Eastern religions, but it is not certain whether the worshippers held the statue itself to be a deity or whether the deity was somehow embodied by the image in such …
13idolatry — [[t]aɪdɒ̱lətri[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Someone who practises idolatry worships idols. [FORMAL] 2) N UNCOUNT (disapproval) If you refer to someone s admiration for a particular person as idolatry, you think it is too great and uncritical. [FORMAL] Their …
14IDOLATRY — worship paid to a mere symbol of the divine while the heart is dead to all sense of that which it symbolises; a species of offence against the Most High, of which many are flagrantly guilty who affect to regard with pity the worshipper of… …
15idolatry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Worship of idols Nouns 1. idolatry, idolism; demonism, demonolatry; idol, demon, devil, fire, or sun worship; paganism, zoolatry, fetishism; bibliolatry; deification, apotheosis, canonization; hero… …
16IDOLATRY — the making of IMAGES to represent GOD or the GODS. Critics of idolatry say that people who use such things believe that they either are in some way indwelt by the God. Most worshipers of such images argue that they simply represent the God and …
17idolatry — noun (U) 1 the practice of worshipping idols 2 too much admiration for someone or something: idolatry of power idolatrous adjective …
18idolatry — noun the prophets railed against idolatry Syn: idolization, fetishization, fetishism, idol worship, adulation, adoration, reverence, veneration, glorification, lionization, hero worshiping …
19idolatry — This word (from the Greek eidōlon, meaning image, and latreia, meaning worship or service ) refers to the worship of creatures or created things in place of God. Idolatry, which is a divinization of creatures, is a sin against the… …
20Idolatry in Judaism — Judaism strongly prohibits any form of idolatry. Judaism holds that idolatry is not limited to the worship of an idol itself, but also worship involving any artistic representations of God. In addition it is forbidden to derive benefit ( hana ah… …
