idolatry
pronunciation
How to pronounce idolatry in British English:
UK [aɪˈdɒlətri]
How to pronounce idolatry in American English:
US [aɪˈdɑlətri]
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- Noun:
- religious zeal; willingness to serve God
- the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God
Word Origin
- idolatry (n.)
- mid-13c., from Old French idolatrie, from Vulgar Latin idolatria, shortened from Late Latin idololatria (Tertullian), from Ecclesiastical Greek eidololatria "worship of idols," from eidolon "image" (see idol) + latreia "worship, service" (see -latry).
Example
- 1. Call it what you like , but it was blatant idolatry .
- 2. Despite its title , it makes rather a good case for market economics ; what it rails against is " free market idolatry " .
- 3. Wahhabism , the dominant form of islam in saudi arabia , is hostile to any reverence granted to historical or religious places of significance , for fear that this may give rise to idolatry .
- 4. But , sadly , there is still plenty of " idolatry " about , just look at the current crop of investment bank forecasts , or the arcane rows that have broken out over models used to gauge the future macro-economic impact of the basel rules .
- 5. The relationship between china and the west has been fraught with ambiguity since the two opium wars in the mid-1800s , which triggered both a nationalistic reaction against imperialism and feelings of national self-loathing and idolatry for anything western .