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单词 idoloclast
释义 idoloclast|aɪˈdɒləklæst|
[f. idolo- + Gr. -κλάστης breaker, after iconoclast.]
A breaker or demolisher of idols, an iconoclast.
1843Hare in Arnold's Hist. Rome III. Pref., In an idolatrous age, one of the men we most need is an idoloclast..Such an idoloclast we had in Dr. Arnold.1846De Quincey Sophocles' Antigone Wks. XIV. 204 Many idoloclasts, who will expose the signs of disease, which zealots had interpreted as power.
Hence idoloˈclastic a. = iconoclastic.
1851Beddoes' Poems Mem. 21 To the transient popularities of the day..a mind so idoloclastic would show but little homage.1852Tait's Mag. XIX. 19 Applying to poetry the great idoloclastic test of resolution into prose.
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