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iconoclast

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A breaker or destroyer of images or idols; a determined enemy of idol worship.

One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A criminal, or merely an iconoclast? Source: Internet

Following this exchange of letters wit the pope, Charlemagne commissioned the Libri Carolini (791–793) to challenge the positions both of the iconoclast council of 754 and of the Council of Nicaea of 787 on the veneration of icons. Source: Internet

Iconoclasm Leo's most striking legislative reforms dealt with religious matters, especially iconoclasm ("Icon-breaking," therefore an iconoclast is an "Icon-breaker"). Source: Internet

One of the best songwriters of his generation, Steve Earle is an iconoclast to the core – and, at various times throughout his life, his own worst enemy. Source: Internet

H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Iconoclast, considered Wilson, who was also an adulterer, "a pompous fraud and a hypocrite.” Source: Internet

Iconoclast roasts a variety of small batch coffee beans in-house. Source: Internet

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