Crossword-Solution: IDOLATRY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Idolatry | n. | The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. |
| Idolatry | n. | Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IDOLATRY | anagram | ADROITLY, DILATORY |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with IDOLATRY (5)
Brave idolatry Which can conceive a hero! No deceit, No knowledge taught by unrelenting years, Can quench this fierce, untamable desire.
Therefore, this offense is not to be tolerated whereby those who are weak and of the flesh participate in idolatry, against the first commandment and our baptism.
For in the Council we will stand not before the Emperor or the political magistrate, as at Augsburg (where the Emperor published a most gracious edict, and caused matters to be heard kindly [and dispassionately]), but [we will appear] before the Pope and devil himself, who intends to listen to nothing, but merely [when the case has been publicly announced] to condemn, to murder and to force us to idolatry.
And is not gaming a species of idolatry, symbolized by cards, and which has its images, its fetishes, its miracles, its fanatics, and its martyrs? Occasionally, above the accompaniment of whispers, rose the strange and incoherent exclamations of the players: “Here are twenty louis! I take it--I pass! The play is made! Banco!” “What a strange gathering!” thought Pascal Ferailleur.
But if the bottle be full of gin, the gin is bad; and if the sign be made in idolatry bad, so is the idolatry.’ And, very like a native pastor, he had a text apposite about the casting out of devils.
Quotes with IDOLATRY (3)
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.
We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God.
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.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1955–2022).