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insurgency(dictionary)

idolatrous (iou) and insurgency (iou)


idolatrous (iou)



idolatrous adjective. M16.
[from IDOLATER + -OUS.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of idolatry; devoted to idolatry. M16.
T. Fuller He saw an idolatrous altar at Damascus.
Of a person: worshipping an idol or idols, worshipping false gods. E17.
Milton The Philistines Idolatrous, uncircumcised, unclean.
idolatrously adverb L16.
idolatrousness noun L16.

insurgency (iou)



insurgency noun. E19.
[formed as INSURGENCE: see -ENCY.]
The quality or state of being insurgent; the tendency to be insurgent; a rising, a revolt.
F. Fitzgerald Fortified villages such as the British had used against the Communist insurgency in Malaya.