Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To worship idols; practise idolatry.
- To adore or worship idolatrously; make an idol of; idolize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To worship idols; to pay idolatrous worship.
- transitive verb To make in idol of; to idolize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make an idol of; to
idolize .
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Examples
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It certainly will not listen very attentively to those conservatives who idolatrize Obama and collaborate in heralding his arrival ....
Anchor Rising 2008
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To invest the Bible with the qualities of inerrancy and infallibility is to idolatrize it, to transform it into a false god. "
Biblical Recorder 2010
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