iconomachy

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Such in general outline and in certain individual details, was the celebrated iconomachy of the Netherlands.

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  1. Enmity or opposition to icons or sacred images; the principles and conduct of the Iconoclasts. The monastic party [at the Nicene Council of a. d. 787] declared that iconomachy was worse than the worst of heresies, because it denied the Saviour's incarnation. Robertson, History of the Christian Church, III. 135.

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  1. from Greek εἰκονομαχία, a war against images, from εἰκονομάχος, warring against images: see iconomachal.
 

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