English to afrikaans meaning of

idolatry

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "afgodery" is die aanbidding van afgode of oormatige toewyding aan of eerbied vir enige persoon of ding. Dit kan ook verwys na die aanbidding van 'n fisiese voorwerp as 'n voorstelling van 'n godheid, of die oormatige bewondering of liefde vir iets of iemand tot die punt dat dit as 'n valse god beskou word.

Synonyms

  1. idol worship

Sentence Examples

  1. Alex picked up her coffee again, composed her features into what she hoped was professional welcome rather than drooling idolatry, and approached the others.
  2. In the romances of chivalry love is either a mere animalism or a fantastic idolatry.
  3. Since the gathering began, there has been a great rise in idolatry in the land.
  4. When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all things, he made it incumbent upon the next comer, if he wished to avoid the imputation of tameness and commonplace, to declare himself the slave of her will, which the next was compelled to cap by some still stronger declaration and so expressions of devotion went on rising one above the other like biddings at an auction, and a conventional language of gallantry and theory of love came into being that in time permeated the literature of Southern Europe, and bore fruit, in one direction in the transcendental worship of Beatrice and Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva.
  5. Should he turn away from the path of Yeravaum, opening the road and purging idolatry from the land, his will be an everlasting kingdom.
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