iconoclasm

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Presuming an evangelical Protestant purpose of expanding God's presence in America's public square, it ignores other religious traditions, including quietism, iconoclasm, and esotericism.

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  1. noun The beliefs, practices, or doctrine of an iconoclast.

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  • Bare breasted(1:21) Vittorio Feltri is the highest point of the neo-iconoclasm, of destruction of people’s image by means of the mass media.
  • The neo-iconoclasm or nano-iconoclasm, is a movement of a defamatory nature that developed in Italy starting at the end of the last century with the objective of destroying the reputation of the adversaries.
  • For an effective nano-iconoclasm you need to have slaves ready for anything.
  • Nothing is here said about riotous iconoclasm, but Lovell had been at the hanging of an image of St. Francis as early as 1543, and in many such godly exercises, or was accused of these acts of zeal. —  John Knox and the Reformation
  • And since iconoclasm is not out of place in an essay on Coleridge, it can also be stated that when Sara Coleridge married her cousin she did a wise thing. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5
 

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  1. Back-formation from iconoclast.

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  1. = French iconoclasme, from Greek εἰκών, an image, + *κλασμός, a breaking, from κλᾶν, break.
 

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/aɪˈkɑnəklæzm/
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