Synonyms for idolatry
aɪˈdɒl ə triidol·a·t·ry

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1. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   adoration, worship, reverence

2. idolatrynoun

   The worship of idols.

   Synonyms:
   worship, reverence, adoration

3. idolatrynoun

   The admiration of somebody or something.

   Synonyms:
   adoration, reverence, worship

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1. idolatry, devotion, veneration, cultismnoun

   religious zeal; the willingness to serve God

   Synonyms:
   fear, devotion, reverence, devotedness, idol worship, veneration, cultism, awe

2. idolatry, idol worshipnoun

   the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God

   Synonyms:
   veneration, cultism, devotion, idol worship

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1. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   worship of idols

2. idolatrynoun

   Synonyms:
   excessive love, excessive veneration

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1. Abdurasul Juraboev Juraboev:

   Sometimes they worship and practice Islam, sometimes they do idolatry, my sisters are uncovered, lack knowledge of a religion. I wish they knew at least how to cover themselves up.

2. John Wesley:

   A feast of dedication; yet he calls it a feast to Jehovah; for as brutish as they were, they did not design to terminate their adoration in the image; but they made it for a representation of the true God...yet this did not excuse them from gross idolatry.”

3. John Calvin:

   The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

4. Mary Baker Eddy:

   Is civilization only a higher form of idolatry, that man should bow down to a flesh-brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, exercise, and air?

5. Pope Francis:

   The Gospel does not condemn the wealthy, but the idolatry of wealth, the idolatry that makes people indifferent to the call of the poor.