OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37606

iconoclasm

/aɪˈkɒnəˌklæzəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
iconoclasia • iconoclastia
The belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.
Finally, “iconoclasm” is a form of desecration and shares its general intention to deny the sacred qualities of an image and to demonstrate that it has no power, to prevent it from…
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