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Iconoclast

noun

A destroyer of images used in religious worship. Synonym: image breaker.

Someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions.

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... summoned to the capital all the governors and high officials for a Grand Council of the Empire. With the men of affairs came the men of learning, many of them wedded to theories and traditions, who looked upon Hoangti as a dangerous iconoclast, and did not hesitate to express ...

— Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... innovators, was considered by his contemporaries as a revolutionary and iconoclast, he only strove to develop and perfect an art that had already existed in a primitive form. This was the art of animating a poetic idea by means of melopoeia; which Wagner ...

— Style in Singing • W. E. Haslam

... fears And narrow prejudice of caste—, Now greets the cultured black with sneers And, barring him from high careers, Breaks, like a mad iconoclast, The nation's ...

— Poems • John L. Stoddard

... erected at the west end of Cheapside. After the Reformation the images with which the cross was ornamented, like the image of Becket set over the gate of the Mercers' Chapel, roused the anger of the iconoclast, who took ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume I • Reginald R. Sharpe

... writings is an evidence of the importance of what might be called cruel positivity in human thinking. Shelley has, however, an advantage over Nietzsche in his recognition of the transformative power of love. In this respect, iconoclast though he is, he is rather with the Buddha and the Christ than ...

— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys

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