idolater
noun
idol·a·ter
ī-ˈdä-lə-tər 
variants
or idolator
1
: a worshipper of idols
2
: a person that admires intensely and often blindly one that is not usually a subject of worship
Examples of idolater in a Sentence
an ancient civilization of pantheists and idolaters
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The Founding Fathers knew of the fate of the 3,000 idolaters who prayed at the golden calf while Moses conversed with God on Mount Sinai, and of the money-changers driven from the Temple by Jesus.
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
Throngs of idolaters gather just to watch the team buses arrive.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
Of course, Moses is overcome when seeing the golden calf, breaks the tablets, and then commends the Levites for punishing the idolaters (32:19, 26‒29).
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage—a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater, but the journalists had the same feeling.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 18 May 2016
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Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
Throngs of idolaters gather just to watch the team buses arrive.
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2024
Of course, Moses is overcome when seeing the golden calf, breaks the tablets, and then commends the Levites for punishing the idolaters (32:19, 26‒29).
—Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2023
The personification of those enthusiasms was the composer John Cage—a student of Schoenberg, a devotee of Eastern thought, and an idolater of Duchamp.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
Carpenter, like Valenti, was an idolater, but the journalists had the same feeling.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
His Wagner book, which placed its subject in the larger intellectual context of his times, infuriated idolaters, for whom the master could do no wrong.
—Margalit Fox, New York Times, 18 May 2016
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“Idolater.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idolater. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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idolater
noun
idol·a·ter
variants
or idolator
1
: a worshipper of idols
2
: a person who admires or loves greatly
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