Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
iconolatry .
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Examples
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Scripture, and the priest with his beads seldom ventured to approach any but the remnant of those of the eikonolatry -- representatives of worm-eaten houses, their debased dependants, and a few poor crazy creatures amongst the middle classes -- he played a poor game, and the labour was about to prove almost entirely in vain, when the English legislature, in compassion or contempt, or, yet more probably, influenced by that spirit of toleration and kindness which is so mixed up with
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842
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Scripture, and the priest with his beads seldom ventured to approach any but the remnant of those of the eikonolatry -- representatives of worm-eaten houses, their debased dependants, and a few poor crazy creatures amongst the middle classes -- he played a poor game, and the labour was about to prove almost entirely in vain, when the English legislature, in compassion or contempt, or, yet more probably, influenced by that spirit of toleration and kindness which is so mixed up with
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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Scripture, and the priest with his beads seldom ventured to approach any but the remnant of those of the eikonolatry -- representatives of worm-eaten houses, their debased dependants and a few poor crazy creatures among the middle classes -- he played a poor game, and the labour was about to prove almost entirely in vain, when the English Legislature, in compassion or contempt, or, yet more probably, influenced by that spirit of toleration and kindness which is so mixed up with
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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Scripture, and the priest with his beads seldom ventured to approach any but the remnant of those of the eikonolatry -- representatives of worm-eaten houses, their debased dependants, and a few poor crazy creatures amongst the middle classes -- he played a poor game, and the labour was about to prove almost entirely in vain, when the English legislature, in compassion or contempt, or, yet more probably, influenced by that spirit of toleration and kindness which is so mixed up with
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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