iconoclast
nounGraduateELO 1,550GREGMAT
DEFINITION
a destroyer of images used in religious worship
WEBSTER'S 1913
A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.
ETYMOLOGY
Greek: ikon (image) + klastos (broken)
IN LITERATURE
“Rabelais has it,--answers the iconoclast,--"what is that to me and my colic, to me and my strangury?”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
IN USE
“The iconoclast controversy returned in the early 9th century, only to be resolved once more in 843 during the regency of Empress Theodora, who restored the icons.”
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