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- noun Plural form of
idolatry .
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Examples
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In harmony with the preceding promises of God, the penitential confessions of Israel are heard. high places -- The scene of their idolatries is the scene of their confessions.
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Jeremiah addresses Jerusalem under the figure of a woman, who, in grief for her lost children, deprives her head of its chief ornament and goes up to the hills to weep (Jud 11: 37, 38; Isa 15: 2). hair -- flowing locks, like those of a Nazarite. high places -- The scene of her idolatries is to be the scene of her mourning (Jer 3: 21). generation of his wrath -- the generation with which He is wroth.
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Jesuits, who, like streams, conveyed the venom and poison of their errors and idolatries from the spring-head through the earth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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You summon us, they might have said to their governors, at your arbitrary dictate to renounce, as what you are pleased to call idolatries and abominations, the faith and rites held sacred by twenty generations of our ancestors and yours.
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance John Foster 1806
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They polluted the land not only with their whoredoms (that is, their idolatries), but with their wickedness, or malice (v. 2), sins against the second table: for how can we think that those will be true to their neighbour that are false to their God?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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I always liked "idolatries" just because I have a soft spot for obscure Bible language.
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Elizabeth by the grace of the most mightie God and only creator of heauen and earth, of England, France, and Ireland Queene, the most inuincible and most mightie defender of the Christian faith against all kind of idolatries of all that liue among the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Elizabeth by the grace of the most mightie God and only creator of heauen and earth, of England, France, and Ireland Queene, the most inuincible and most mightie defender of the Christian faith against all kind of idolatries of all that liue among the Christians and falsly professe the name of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Football brought oceans of prosperity to Penn State, as to other colleges and businesses, and like many ancient and modern idolatries, whoever/whatever can bring such abundance is a god and Its priesthood is too sacred to be doubted.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Football brought oceans of prosperity to Penn State, as to other colleges and businesses, and like many ancient and modern idolatries, whoever/whatever can bring such abundance is a god and Its priesthood is too sacred to be doubted.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Football, Rape, Cash: Idolatry Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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