idolater

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Although hated by Orthodox Jews as a Hellenistic idolater, Herod expanded the Temple and adorned it with marble and gold.

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

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For the first time in his life he found himself in the presence of an idolater.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)