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adjective
Third Person
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Present Participle
most iconoclastic
1
relating to or advocating the removal, destruction, or prohibition of religious icons and images on grounds of idolatry
- The Byzantine emperor issued iconoclastic decrees that ordered all church icons smashed.
- Protestant reformers in the 16th century led iconoclastic uprisings against Catholic altarpieces.
- The council condemned the iconoclastic impulses of those who opposed saint veneration.
- The mosque's design reflects aniconism, an iconoclastic principle in many Islamic traditions.
- Archaeologists uncovered ruins of an iconoclastic purge that erased all statues of deities.
2
marked by rejection of traditional doctrines, norms, or power structures
- The critic's iconoclastic review tore down decades of revered cinema in a single essay.
- Her iconoclastic approach to architecture blends brutalism with playful, unorthodox forms.
- As an iconoclastic novelist, he subverted genre tropes to expose social hypocrisies.
- The startup's iconoclastic strategy disrupted the entire banking industry.
- A handful of iconoclastic scientists questioned the bedrock assumptions of their field.