Iconoclasm Definition

ī-kŏnə-klăzəm
noun
The actions or beliefs of an iconoclast.
Webster's New World

The belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.

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Other Word Forms of Iconoclasm

Noun

Singular:
iconoclasm
Plural:
iconoclasms

Origin of Iconoclasm

  • Back-formation from iconoclast

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From iconoclast.

    From Wiktionary

Iconoclasm Sentence Examples

  • And it is important to remark that the protagonists of iconoclasm in Byzantium came from these lands where image cult offended the deepest religious instincts of the masses.

  • From the standpoint of the popular religion, the removal of the local altars, like Hezekiah's destruction of the brazen serpent, would be an act of desecration, an iconoclasm which can be partly appreciated from the sentiments of 2 Kings xviii.

  • He also opposed iconoclasm and checked the advancing Lombards.

  • This latter practice, hotly denounced as idolatry during the iconoclastic controversy (see Iconoclasm), was finally established as orthodox by the second general council of Nicaea (787), which restored the worship of images.

  • We still have fundamentalist iconoclasm; for example, the Taliban.

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IICICO

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MSMASM

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