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English
Etymology
From idolatrous + -ly.
Adverb
idolatrously (comparative more idolatrously, superlative most idolatrously)
- In an idolatrous manner.
1640, Bishop Hall, Christian Moderation:[…] yet didst thou find it better, to make up the breaches of that altar, which was misconsecrated to the service of thy God, than to make use of that pile, which was idolatrously devoted to a false god.
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References
- “idolatrously”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “idolatrously”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.