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Iconoclast   /ˌaɪkˈɑnəklˌæst/   Listen
Iconoclast

noun
1.
A destroyer of images used in religious worship.  Synonym: image breaker.
2.
Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions.





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"Iconoclast" Quotes from Famous Books



... THE WORK OF ROUSSEAU. The inspirer of the new theory as to the purpose of education was none other than the French-Swiss iconoclast and political writer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose work as a political theorist we have previously described. Happening to take up the educational problem as a phase of his activity against the political and social and ecclesiastical conditions of his age, ...
— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY
... of the gentle iconoclast steal upon the ear, and how they must have hushed the questioning audience into pleased attention! The "Song of Songs, which is Solomon's," could not have wooed the listener more sweetly. "Thy lips ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... have always believed that Woman was the one thing which God came nearest to creating perfect. I believe they should be perfect. And because they have not quite that perfection which should be theirs I have driven the cold facts home as hard as I could. I have been a fool and an iconoclast instead of a builder. This confession to you is proof that you have brought me face to face with ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood
... place in his religious views; and as rumor seldom stops short of extremes, it was soon said that he had become a thorough pietist. Catholics and Protestants by turns claiming him as a convert. Such a change in so uncompromising an iconoclast, in a man who had been so zealous in his negations as Heine, naturally excited considerable sensation in the camp he was supposed to have quitted, as well as in that he was supposed to have joined. In the second volume of the "Salon," and ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... were six bells in the original church. These were sold by the said churchwarden, who would appear to have been a zealous iconoclast. According to one tradition they went to Billinghay, but as the church there has only three bells, this is probably an error. Another version is that they were transferred to Tetford church; had ...
— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter


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