Iconoclast Synonyms

ī-kŏnə-klăst
A destroyer of religious images
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. dissenter
  2. vandal
  3. image breaker
  4. heathen
  5. antichrist
A nonconformist
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. individualist
  2. nonconformist
  3. dissenter
  4. radical
  5. rebel
  6. renegade
  7. revolutionary
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Iconoclast Sentence Examples

  • The worship of images never seems to have taken root among Armenians; indeed they supplied the Greek world with iconoclast soldiers and emperors.

  • Suffolk legend has it that William Dowsing, the great iconoclast, is buried in this church.

  • His son Gegnesius in 722 was taken to Constantinople, where he won over to his opinions the iconoclast emperor, Leo the Isaurian.

  • But the tide of conquest was stemmed by the iconoclast emperors, and the Arab expeditions, excepting those of Harun al-Rashid, 781 and 806, and of elMotasim, 838, became simply predatory raids.

  • The iconoclast emperor Leo V., an Armenian, persecuted the sect afresh, and provoked a rising at Cynoschora, whence many fled into Saracen territory to Argaeum near Melitene.

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