Human-made object that is venerated for the deity, spirit or daemon that it represents.
Synonyms
Examples for "idol"
Examples for "idol"
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And to hear that coming from a really great idol is difficult.
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Genius is her idol; and with her genius is found in everything.
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He caught the latter in the hollow idol of a huge Shiva.
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Both united in condemning to eternal wrath the idol-worshippers of the Kaaba.
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They walked up to the idol in the presence of its votaries.
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With him, sincerity in art was a fetish; in life, a superfluity.
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Hence the symbolic use of leather-primitiveanimal hide-forwhips and fetish clothing.
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On the salvage of a fetish than the winning of the fight.
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For a couple of years there, I had a major blimp fetish.
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She picked up a bear fetish-itsright paw raised, miniature claws exposed.
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Persephone kneels and begins to inscribe symbols on the featureless landscape with the tip of her ritual object.
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She is, in fact, a ritual personage using ritual objects to perform ritual acts.
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The sacred basket with the ritual objects was borne separately on its own platform.
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It came to Alice that she should go out and get some ritual objects.
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These skulls turn out to be ritual objects.
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The drama, the cult image, the pictograph, the synecdochic picture, the ideaglyph, were steps in a progress without a break.