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- pronunciation:
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klaest
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
one who attacks and seeks to break down traditional beliefs and institutions or popular ideas and values.
As a priest, he was an iconoclast who believed in the ordination of women.- similar words:
- anarchist
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| definition 2: |
one who destroys religious images to prevent them from being worshiped.
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| related words: |
heretic, nonconformist |
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| derivations: |
iconoclastic (adj.), iconoclastically (adv.) |
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