iconoclast


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
iconoclast /ʌɪˈkɒnəklast/
noun
  • 1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
  • 2 a person who destroys images used in religious worship, especially one belonging to a movement opposing such images in the Byzantine Church during the 8th and 9th centuries.
– derivatives
iconoclasm noun,
iconoclastic adjective,
iconoclastically adverb.
– origin C17: via med. L. from eccles. Gk eikonoklastēs, from eikōn ‘likeness’ + klan ‘to break’.
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