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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Worship of idols.
  2. n. Blind or excessive devotion to something.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The worship of idols or images; more generally, the paying of divine honors to any created object; the ascription of divine power to natural agencies Idolatry exists in a variety of forms, as
  2. n. Immoderate veneration or love for any person or thing; admiration bordering on adoration.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The worship of idols.
  2. n. The admiration of somebody or something.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.
  2. n. Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God
  2. n. religious zeal; the willingness to serve God

Etymologies

  1. From Old French idolatrie, ydolatrie, from Late Latin īdōlatrīa, from Ecclesiastical Latin īdōlolatrīa, from Ancient Greek εἰδωλολατρία (eidōlolatria, "worship of idols"), back-formation from εἰδωλολάτρης (eidōlolatrēs) (īdōlatra in Latin), from εἴδωλον (eidōlon, "idol") + λάτρις (latris, "worshipper") or λατρεύω (latreuō, "I worship"), from λάτρον (latron, "payment"); cognate with modern French idolâtrie, Italian idolatria, Occitan ydolatria, and Spanish idolatria. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English idolatrie, from Old French, from Latin īdōlolatrīa, from Greek eidōlolatreiā : eidōlon, idol; see idol + latreiā, service. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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