idolater

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

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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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“Self,” exclaims the fervid William Law, “is both atheist and idolater; atheist, because it rejects God; idolater, because it is its own idol.”

From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison