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Idolatrously

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i·dol·a·trous  (-dl-trs)
adj.
1. Of or having to do with idolatry.
2. Given to blind or excessive devotion to something: "The religiosity of the [group] is self-righteous and idolatrous. It perceives no virtue in its opponents and magnifies its own" (Christopher Lasch).
3. Constituting idolatry.

i·dola·trous·ly adv.
i·dola·trous·ness n.
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Adv.1.idolatrously - in an idolatrous manner; "the people idolatrously worshipped the Golden Calf"


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For Wills, the Catholic cult of the Virgin Mary is essentially a ghastly mistake, propagated by the papacy, which has idolatrously exalted a creature in the place of her Lord, oppressed women, denigrated sexuality, usurped the proper role of the Holy Ghost, and infantilized the clergy.
We can defend the wines only as wines, the wines as wineskins--not idolatrously as God's last words, architectural or musical, to humanity.
 
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