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   iconoclast

   /ʌɪˈkɒnəklast/

   noun

   • 1. a person who attacks or criticizes cherished beliefs or institutions.
   • 2. a destroyer of images used in religious worship.
   • ▪ a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Church which sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images. historical
   • ▪ a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century. historical

   Word Origin mid 17th century (in iconoclast (sense 2)): via medieval Latin from ecclesiastical Greek eikonoklastēs, from eikōn ‘likeness’ + klan ‘to break’.

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