i|con|o|clast

i|con|o|clast
i|con|o|clast «y KON uh klast», noun.
1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions which he thinks are wrong or foolish: »

I have become a reformer, and, like all reformers, an iconoclast…I shatter creeds and demolish idols (George Bernard Shaw).

2. a person opposed to worshiping images or who breaks or destroys them.
3. a) a Protestant who practiced or approved of the destruction of church images in the 1500's and 1600's, especially a Protestant in the Netherlands. b) one of a sect in the Greek Orthodox Church of the 700's and 800's opposed to the use and worship of images.
╂[< Medieval Latin ikonoklastes < Medieval Greek eikonoklastes < Greek eik image + klas-, stem of klân to break]

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