idolatrous

Thus, we find in the portrayal of the religious procession (which is progressing along the city street beyond the inner gate), that Hogarth draws upon the stock cliches of Protestant anti-Catholic satire, showing French peasants idolatrously worshiping the communion host, overawed by the extravagance of priestly ritual, but impervious to true religious feeling.

Only when stripped of his moralistic and idolatrously full-of-himself pretensions can Ivan "listen" and hear and finally find trustworthy the good news of the "strange thought" uttered by a voice from outside of himself proclaiming God's judging and justifying Word that "he had not lived as he should." It is a truth of which we are all guilty and are thus necessary subjects of God's salvation--like the repentant thief and, I expect, the unrepentant thief as well, crucified next to Jesus.

Simcox was clear that her relationship with Eliot was not a friendship, although she struggled to find exactly the right term for it: "Do you see darling that I can only love you three lawful ways, idolatrously as Frater the Virgin Mary, in romance wise as Petrarch, Laura, or with a child's fondness for the mother" (45).

Solomon (idolatrously) honored the murderous Ammonite god with a temple (1 Kings 11:5-7).

Because Nazism, for Fackenheim, "idolatrously identifies finiteness and infinitude, it is an idealism totally without ideals," a "modern idolatry" that "is the result of a thinking about human autonomy that in principle renders revelation impossible" (24).

The poet of the Chanson considers Muslims to be "Paynims" (that is, pagans) who idolatrously worship an unholy Trinity composed of Apollyon (Greek Apollo), the demon Termagant, and "Mahound" (or "Mahond," or "Mahomet").