Iconoclastic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to iconoclasm, or to the opinions and practices of the Iconoclasts; given to breaking images, or to exposing errors of belief or false pretensions: as, iconoclastic enthusiasm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to the iconoclasts, or to image breaking.
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  • adjective. Characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm.
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  • adjective. destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited
  • adjective. characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
  • Word Usage
    "That they were especially iconoclastic is an idea that will not wash, when one considers the remarkable innovations, the formal attacks on the norms of literature present at the time, by such writers as Olson, Creeley, O'Hara, Spicer, and so on."
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