What's the difference between idolatrous and idolish?

Idolatrous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to idolatry; partaking of the nature of idolatry; given to idolatry or the worship of false gods; as, idolatrous sacrifices.
  • (a.) Consisting in, or partaking of, an excessive attachment or reverence; as, an idolatrous veneration for antiquity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
  • (2) There are plenty of Christian radicals who think that our attitude to real estate verges on the idolatrous.
  • (3) That year was tantamount to the hemiplegia for the idolatrous west that began preparing equipment and projects to strike any project of the Islamic State, and the announcement of the caliphate.
  • (4) He added: “One of the great ironies is that Kim Davis’s Pentecostal faith has historically viewed Catholicism as an idolatrous abomination of Christianity.
  • (5) Once the group took control it did destroy two shrines that it considered idolatrous, according to its puritanical interpretation of Islam.
  • (6) Isis has destroyed famed archaeological sites in Syria and Iraq , viewing them as idolatrous.
  • (7) As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous.
  • (8) He defended labor unions and praised poor people who had formed cooperatives to create jobs where previously “there were only crumbs of an idolatrous economy”.
  • (9) The regime’s withdrawal left the city entirely in the militants’ control, though Isis pledged to destroy only what it deemed idolatrous.
  • (10) The Church of England is failing gay Christian couples and must rethink the traditional, biblical portrayal of homosexuality as "idolatrous, promiscuous and exploitative", according to one bishop.
  • (11) It still didn't make their movies any good, and the impressively succinct and comprehensive Cinema Komunisto earns laughs with idolatrous tracking shots of partisans on parade all holding exactly the same small photo of Tito, and suspiciously Slavic-looking Nazis lecturing their troops on how Tito must be destroyed because Yugoslavia is so heavenly.

Idolish


Definition:

  • (a.) Idolatrous.

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