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Meaning: (literal)One whoreverestheSunas adeity.1899,Robert Barr,The Ambassador's Pigeons:Here Christian, or Jew,Sun-worshipperor Pagan implore their several gods unmolested.1913,Edgar Rice Burroughs,The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published1963, page167:He had fallen into the hands of descendants of the ancientsun worshippers. His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had been but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking down upon him through the opening at the top of the court had claimed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings—to save him as a human offering to their flaming deity.1941,George Ryley Scott,Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page21:Moses warns his followers against the allure of sun- and star-worship; and Ezekiel mentions seeing, in a vision, twenty-five men of Judah worshipping the sun. Indeed, so powerful was the incentive to worship the sun, and so great was its rivalry to the worship of Jehovah, that it was found necessary to take the most drastic measures towards its suppression.Sun-worshipperswere threatened with death by stoning.; (idiomatic)A person who enjoysexposuretosunlight; anavidsunbather.1901,Samuel Butler, chapter 21, inErewhon Revisited:"The light hurts you?" she said, for the sun was coming into the room. "Change places with me, I am asun worshipper."1981January 11, “Stunning for Sunning”, inNew York Times, retrieved25 May 2015:A bikini . . . tends to slip and slide a bit in the surf. But for a die-hardsun worshipper, a two-piece suit is the next best thing to nothing at all.2010August 3, Denis Campbell, “Bottoms bring up the rear in suntan time trials”, inGuardian, UK, retrieved25 May 2015:Previous research by Rees has confirmed whatsun worshippersalready knew: that the upper back is much more likely to tan than the legs.
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