idolater

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For Ibsen, as later for an Ibsen idolater named James Joyce, exile was creation's catalyst.

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Such, too, is the fascination of speculation respecting the man behind the pen that someone, biographer or scandalmonger or idolater, is rather more than likely to tell the world about him.

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Consequently he has been denounced as a "traitor," "idolater," "conspirator."

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As he proceeds to plant an intolerant city-state on American soil, this Milton sneers at the memory of More, calling him an idolater who had had his head chopped off.

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But the chief idolater still refused with great perverseness, and said that he would not believe unless John drank poison, and through God's might overcame the deadly drink.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham