Results for iconoclasm

Definitions of iconoclasm:

part of speech: noun

The act of.

part of speech: noun

Act of breaking images.

Usage examples for iconoclasm:

• Iconoclasm for its own sake is sheer waste. "Literature for Children", Orton Lowe

• But from his master's point of view this would have been giving to a pack of lying beggars and thieves what was due to the holy saint; no one save Tibble, who could do and say what he chose, could have ventured on a word of remonstrance on such a subject; and as the full tide of iconoclasm consequent on the discovery of the original wording of the second commandment, had not yet set in, Tibble had no more conscientious scruple against making the figure, than in moulding a little straight- tailed lion for Lord Harry Percy's helmet. "The Armourer's Prentices", Charlotte Mary Yonge