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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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Thus his life was spent between fits of wild devotion and paroxysms of remorse, lest he had become an idolater.

From Silent Struggles by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)