idolatrously

English

Etymology

idolatrous +‎ -ly

Adverb

idolatrously (comparative more idolatrously, superlative most idolatrously)

In an idolatrous manner.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
  […] 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.

References

idolatrously in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
idolatrously in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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