idoloclastn.
/ʌɪˈdɒləklast/ A breaker or demolisher of idols, an iconoclast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > vandalism or iconoclasm > vandal or iconoclast
defacer1534
image-breaker1565
iconoclasta1629
Goth1663
Vandal1663
Huna1744
book-burner1821
idoloclast1843
train-wrecker1873
biblioclast1880
trasher1970
1843 Hare 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.
1846 T. De Quincey Antigone in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 112/2 Many idoloclasts, who will expose the signs of disease, which zealots had interpreted as power.
Derivatives
idoloˈclastic adj. = iconoclastic adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > vandalizing or iconoclastic
iconoclastic1640
Vandalic1667
iconoclast1685
Vandal1700
vandalizing1805
Hun-like1830
vandalish1834
idoloclastic1851
vandalistic1854
biblioclastic1887
1851 T. F. Kelsall Mem. in T. L. Beddoes Poems I. p. xxi To the transient popularities of the day..a mind so idoloclastic would show but little homage.
1852 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 19 19 Applying to poetry the great idoloclastic test of resolution into prose.
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