idolater

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

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One Per�n idolater had dragged a great, 100-lb. wooden cross from seaside Mar del Plata 300 miles away.

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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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The word "idolater," which they were so ready to use, carried terror on all sides.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob