(n.) The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods.
(n.) Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love which borders on adoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps inevitably, their comments gives the film an air of hagiography bordering on idolatry, or even theology – at one point Hana Ali speaks of her mother, Porche, “seeing God in his eyes”.
(2) Focusing on glorifying and eternalising the leaders and taking refuge in God and inserting them into hidden shirk [idolatry] through immortalising ephemeral, temporary personalities.
(3) How the ancient city of Palmyra looked before the fighting – in pictures Read more Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
(4) Vilks' cartoon caused outrage because dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
(5) He rejected what he saw as pagan accretions introduced by bid’a (innovation) and shirk (idolatry or polytheism), which detracts from the absolute transcendence of God.
(6) Peckham's main difficulty in writing a script, he found, was to do justice to such a familiar and beloved figure without tipping into idolatry.
(7) Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
(8) Among the many accusations levelled at the medieval Knights Templar to justify the brutal suppression of the order was that of idolatry.
(9) So it is difficult for many people to understand why for Muslims, especially in the Sunni traditions, such depictions are anathema, as idolatry.
(10) His alleged crimes included representing Syria at “infidel conferences”, serving as “the director of idolatry” in Palmyra, visiting Iran to commemorate the anniversary of the “Khomeini revolution” and communicating with Syrian military officers, including his brother Col Issa al-Asaadin.
(11) K-pop idolatry is played out daily on the streets of Shin-Okubo, a Tokyo neighbourhood packed with Korean restaurants and shops selling K-pop paraphernalia.
(12) But we were wrong not to discourage the idolatry on the left.
(13) Dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
(14) Its puritanical interpretation of Islam deems them a form of heresy and idolatry.
(15) Those who understood him admired him to the point of idolatry but he was also considered as the supreme egotist not giving an inch in discussions and overriding many of his colleagues, making enemies of them as he went and then deeming himself greatly wronged by lack of recognition.
(16) It looks as if the notoriously prudish Ruskin, who worshipped Turner to the point of idolatry, couldn't actually bring himself to destroy his work.
(17) The extremists condemned the buildings as totems of idolatry.
(18) Maybe that’s what Saudi Arabia’s mufti fears | Stephen Moss Read more Sheikh justified the ruling by referring to the verse in the Qur’an banning “intoxicants, gambling, idolatry and divination”.
(19) But what always made me uncomfortable – then, in 2008; now, in 2016 – was the idolatry that followed him.
(20) Indeed, if he wasn't so authentically loved, such idolatry could look North Korean.
Reverence
Definition:
(n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
(n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
(n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
(n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
(v. t.) To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
Example Sentences:
(1) She followed that with a job at Bibendum – she still talks of Simon Hopkinson, "such an elegant cook, so particular and clean and efficient", with deep reverence – and another at Roscoff in Northern Ireland.
(2) Many have called for the return of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Buddhist leader revered by many Tibetans.
(3) It is a waste of taxpayer’s money.” A third critic wrote: “What China’s National Football Team gives its fans is decades of consistent disappointment.” Some disillusioned fans called for Team China’s manager, Gao Hongbo, to be sacked and replaced with Lang Ping, the revered coach of China’s female volleyball team.
(4) Compaoré was 36 when he seized power in a coup in which Thomas Sankara, his former friend and one of Africa’s most revered leaders, was ousted and assassinated.
(5) We intend to treat claims from the most powerful factions with skepticism, not reverence.
(6) King notes with some amusement that he has been around so long that kids who read and loved him in the 1970s now run publishing houses and newspapers; he is revered, these days, as a grand old man of American letters.
(7) Four explosions hit the southern Damascus district of Sayeda Zeinab, where a revered Shia shrine is located, leaving 62 dead and 180 injured, according to the Observatory.
(8) Where we revere and anthropomorphise such brutal predators as sharks, tigers and bears, we view these tiny ectoparasites as worthless, an evolutionary accident with no redeeming or adorable characteristics.
(9) Where other titans became “Old Farts” overnight – “ No Elvis, Beatles or Rolling Stones in 1977” as the Clash had it – Bowie stayed revered.
(10) It is hard to explain the significance of the man to those who may not have been born at the time or informed of the freedom struggle, or born witness to his dignity, pride, humility and moral authority, but I and so many others revered him as a father and cherished his existence as a living secular saint.
(11) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(12) But many of the MEK's American supporters speak of the organisation almost with a reverence.
(13) Up to half a million wolves once roamed across America , living in harmony with native Americans who revered them for supposed healing powers.
(14) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
(15) Qhorin Halfhand is revered for his ability to live deep into Wildling territory for years on end.
(16) He inspired that odd mixture of reverence and resentment that we now associate with celebrity, a phenomenon wrongly thought modern.
(17) Oscar Tabárez's side may not play with the same flair and commitment to attack, but Luis Suárez demonstrated here why he is so revered and the draw has been as inviting for La Celeste as they could possibly have dared hope.
(18) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
(19) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
(20) It's one thing for critics and curators to single out the next rising star from China, expecting hushed reverence from the general public, but quite another for us to genuinely engage with the art of China past and present.