Crossword clues for idolatry
idolatry
- Hero-worshipping adroitly revised
- Hero worship
- Dilatory sort of hero worship
- Diana upset royalty, ultimately lacking unbridled adoration
- Image worship
- Worship of graven images
- Worship of false gods
- Worship gone too far
- Something prohibited by the Ten Commandments
- Practice forbidden by the Ten Commandments
- Pagan practice
- Immoderate devotion
- Excessive worship
- Excessive adoration
- Devotion, and then some
- Blind reverence
- Admiration taken too far
- Blind devotion
- Star worship
- Second Commandment prohibition
- Ten Commandments no-no
- Blind love
- The worship of images that are not God
- Religious zeal
- Willingness to serve God
- The worship of idols
- More than devotion
- " . . . god of my ___" (Juliet re Romeo)
- Extreme admiration
- Worship of images
- Wedding vow: glad at heart attempt to create devotion
- Papers with time inspired by eccentric royal, showing undue adoration
- Icon worship
- I attempt emphatically to restrain the Parisian's adoration
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idolatry \I*dol"a*try\, n.; pl. Idolatries. [F. idol[^a]trie, LL. idolatria, L. idololatria, Fr. Gr. ?; ? idol + ? service.]
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The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.
His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah.
--Milton. Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., from Old French idolatrie, from Vulgar Latin idolatria, shortened from Late Latin idololatria (Tertullian), from Ecclesiastical Greek eidololatria "worship of idols," from eidolon "image" (see idol) + latreia "worship, service" (see -latry).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The worship of idols. 2 The admiration of somebody or something.
WordNet
n. religious zeal; willingness to serve God [syn: devotion, veneration, cultism]
the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God [syn: idol worship]
Wikipedia
Idolatry is the worship of an idol or a physical object as a representation of a god. In all the Abrahamic religions idolatry is strongly forbidden, although views as to what constitutes idolatry differ within and between them. In some other religions the use of idols is accepted. Which images, ideas, and objects constitute idolatry is often a matter of considerable contention.
Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones. In addition, Christian theologians, following Saint Paul, have extended the concept to include giving undue importance to other aspects of religion, or to non-religious aspects of life in general, with no involvement of images specifically. For example, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. Man commits idolatry whenever he honours and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be gods, or demons (for example satanism), power, pleasure, race, ancestors, the state, money etc." In some Islamic societies with sharia law, idolaters may face the death penalty.
The avoidance of the use of images for religious reasons is called aniconism. The destruction of religious images within a culture is called iconoclasm, of which there have been many major episodes in history.
Idolatry is the worship of idols.
Idolatry may also refer to:
- Idolatry (blog) - the video blog dedicated to American Idol
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Usage examples of "idolatry".
I realized that he was doing it deliberately, and in our interests: Without that iconoclasm we would be lost in idolatry.
In her anxiety to strangle the rebelliousness which had been communicated from her mind to her blood, and was present with her whether her mind was in action or not, she encouraged the ladies Eleanor and Isabel to magnify the fictitious man of their idolatry, hoping that she might enter into them imaginatively, that she might to some degree subdue herself to the necessity of her position.
Israel because men devoted themselves to such idolatry instead of practising the arts of martial defence and government.
To be carried into our chamber--to be set up ostentatiously--there, where none but ourselves may see--to be an object of our constant tendance, careful idolatry, keen suspicion, delighted worship!
But almost all those who had reluctantly yielded to the power of vice or idolatry were sensible of their fallen condition, and anxiously desirous of being restored to the benefits of the Christian communion.
But the triumph of the Koran is more pure and meritorious, as it was not assisted by any visible splendor of worship which might allure the Pagans by some resemblance of idolatry.
Medina apostatized from their Faith, turning back to the idolatry of pagan times.
It is remarkable, that the principles of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, and that men have a natural tendency to rise from idolatry to theism, and to sink again from theism into idolatry.
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.
God, despising him and his Sacraments, that thou dost transgress divine law, Holy Scripture and the canons of the Church, that thou thinkest evil and dost err from the faith, that thou art full of vain boasting, that thou art addicted to idolatry and worship of thyself and thy clothes, according to the customs of the heathen.
She was a thorough daughter of the soil in her peasantlike matter-of-factness and doggedness, and her acceptance of great lords and kings and prelates as such without idolatry or snobbery, seeing at a glance how much they were individually good for.
Without pausing to except or qualify, or to be thoroughly informed and just, they included the ancient stern generations and their own degraded contemporaries, the vile rites of the Corinthian Aphrodite and the solemn service of Demeter, the furious revels of the Bacchanalians and the harmonious mental worship of Apollo, all in one indiscriminate charge of insane beastliness and idolatry.
Pythagoras enveloped doctrine with symbols, but carefully eschewed personifications and images, which, he thought, sooner or later produced idolatry.
Mallory, the idol of every young mountaineer and cragsman in pre-war England, whose fantastic climbing exploits had made world headlines, in '38 and '39: Mallory, who had twice been baulked by the most atrocious ill-fortune from surprising Rommel in his desert headquarters: Mallory, who had three times refused promotion in order to stay with his beloved Cretans who worshipped him the other side of idolatry.
But the making of the Golden Calfe by Aaron, and the People, as being done without authority from God, was Idolatry.