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- noun Plural form of
idolism .
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Examples
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The life of an heroic age -- that is, of an older stage of civilisation than the common European medieval form -- was interpreted and represented by the men of that age themselves with a clearness of understanding that appears to be quite unaffected by the common medieval fallacies and "idolisms."
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After some general propositions, it would be proper to indulge the orthodoxy of invocation; not to Muses, however, but to the subject itself; for now-a-days, in lieu of definite deities, our worship has regard to theories, doctrines, and other abstract idolisms: and thereafter should follow at length an historical retrospect of domestic life, from the savage to the transition states of hunters and warriors;
An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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After some general propositions, it would be proper to indulge the orthodoxy of invocation; not to Muses, however, but to the subject itself; for now-a-days, in lieu of definite deities, our worship has regard to theories, doctrines, and other abstract idolisms: and thereafter should follow at length an historical retrospect of domestic life, from the savage to the transition states of hunters and warriors;
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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