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

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And this coolheaded didact of "epic"theater and "alienation" effects was a sentimental idolater of Charlie Chaplin movies.

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

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In connection with this it may be remarked, that in the Talmud Terah, the father of Abraham, is represented as an idolater, reproved by his son Abraham for foolish and wicked superstition.

From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Pinches, Theophilus Goldridge