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Infidel vs Idolater - What's the difference?

infidel | idolater |

As nouns the difference between infidel and idolater

is that infidel is one who does not believe in a certain religion while idolater is one who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.

infidel

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who does not believe in a certain religion.
  • * V. Knox
  • The infidel writer is a great enemy to society.
    The Imam said that all non-Muslims are considered to be infidels .
  • One who does not believe in a certain principle.
  • One with no religious beliefs.
  • Synonyms

    * unbeliever * non-believer * nonbeliever * (one with no religious beliefs) atheist

    Anagrams

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    idolater

    English

    Alternative forms

    * idolator (chiefly British)

    Noun

  • (en noun) (female idolatress )
  • One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.
  • I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters'''; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an '''idolater , or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? — 1 Corinthians 5:9-12 KJV.