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Definition of Idol worship
1. Noun. The worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God.
Generic synonyms: Worship
Specialized synonyms: Iconolatry
Derivative terms: Idolater, Idolatrous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idol Worship
Literary usage of Idol worship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions by James Shepard Dennis (1897)
"... vileness can match anything in the records of pagan license.1 While there are
degrees of grossness, superstition, and degradation in idol-worship, ..."
2. Hinduism by Monier Monier-Williams, Monier Williams (1885)
"MODERN IDOL-WORSHIP, SACRED OBJECTS, HOLY PLACES AND TIMES. No account of Hinduism
can pretend to completeness without some notice of its modern ..."
3. China and the Chinese: A General Description of the Country and Its by John Livingston Nevius (1869)
"Complicity with idol worship in other Ways.—Difficulties connected with the strict
Observance of the Sabbath.—Experience of Deo-vu Ah- san. ..."
4. Through Siberia, the Land of the Future by Fridtjof Nansen (1914)
"... Position of women : Christianity and idol-worship : How to clean a tent:
Appearance of natives : A drunken prince : Honesty : A " convent " with monks ..."
5. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1864)
"His family did not believe in idol worship. Dec. 6.—A respectable merchant said
be was familiar with the laws of ..."
6. Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou (1885)
"idol worship. — Native Amusements. — Morals in Japan — Lake Biwa. — Osaka on a
Gala Day. — The Inland Sea. — Island of Pappenburg. ..."
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