Crossword-Solution: IDOLATROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Idolatrous | a. | Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices. |
| Idolatrous | a. | Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity. |
We have 40 clues for the answer “IDOLATROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| idolatric | 1 answer |
| Showing excessive admiration. | 1 answer |
| Excessively adoring | 2 answers |
| anthropomorphic | 7 answers |
| fetishistic | 18 answers |
| hot for | 25 answers |
| glorifying | 28 answers |
| sincerely religious | 30 answers |
| worshipping | 30 answers |
| turned on | 34 answers |
| admiring | 35 answers |
| Infatuated | 40 answers |
| Adoring | 46 answers |
| Hallowed | 47 answers |
| pietistic | 52 answers |
| Religious | 53 answers |
| Solemn | 55 answers |
| punctilious | 55 answers |
| Fervid | 56 answers |
| worshipful | 56 answers |
| Reverent | 57 answers |
| respectful | 57 answers |
| honouring | 58 answers |
| orthodox | 58 answers |
| conscientious | 60 answers |
| godly | 62 answers |
| Pious | 62 answers |
| Zealous | 63 answers |
| Saintly | 64 answers |
| Deferential | 66 answers |
| Devout | 66 answers |
| Dedicated | 67 answers |
| Loyal | 69 answers |
| Fervent | 69 answers |
| Sacred | 72 answers |
| DIVINE ___ | 75 answers |
| Impassioned | 77 answers |
| Passionate | 78 answers |
| Devoted | 83 answers |
| Holy | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with IDOLATROUS (5)
But what have been thy answers? what but dark, Ambiguous, and with double sense deluding, Which they who asked have seldom understood, And, not well understood, as good not known? Who ever, by consulting at thy shrine, Returned the wiser, or the more instruct To fly or follow what concerned him most, 440 And run not sooner to his fatal snare? For God hath justly given the nations up To thy delusions; justly, since they fell Idolatrous.
The key rattled, and the door swung open--but the black-cassocked gentleman who stepped in, though a priest indeed, was no votary of idolatrous rites, but that sound orthodox divine, the Reverend Ozias Mounce, looking very much perturbed at his surroundings, and very much on the alert for the Scarlet Woman.
There was a perceptible improvement of the public morals, and a partial release from oppression; but, other than that, the SEEDS SOWN BY THE SON OF MAN, having fallen into idolatrous hearts, had produced nothing save innumerable discords and a quasi-poetical mythology.
And the congregation sat partly clustered on the slope below, and partly among the idolatrous monoliths and on the turfy soil of the Ring itself.
Verman, the tattooed wild boy, speaking only in his native foreign languages, Verman the gay, Verman the caperer, capered no more; he chuckled no more, he beckoned no more, nor tapped his chest, nor wreathed his idolatrous face in smiles.
Quotes with IDOLATROUS (3)
Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry - but not if it means holding faith in the right way, that is, not holding it at all but being held by God, in love and service. Theology is idolatry if it means what we say about God instead of letting ourselves be addressed by what God has to say to us. Faith is idolatrous if it is rigidly self-certain but not if it is softened in the waters of 'doubt.
Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1955–2022).