image-breakingn.
/ˈɪmɪdʒˌbreɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɪmɪdʒˌbreɪkɪŋ/ The breaking of images; iconoclasm.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > iconoclasm > [noun]
iconomachy1583
image-breaking1674
iconoclasm1797
1674 G. Coles Theophilus & Philodoxus iii. 106 As soon as they heard of this Fact of Image-breaking, they trampled his Lawrels under foot.
1720 J. Chamberlayne tr. G. Brandt Hist. Reformation (new ed.) I. vii. 197 The Church was abandoned to the fury of the Mob, which rushed in like a torrent, and resumed the work of Image-breaking.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes vi. 328 It is tragical for us all to be concerned in image-breaking and down-pulling.
1960 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 23 312/1 It was not until the summer of that year that image-breaking received any official sanction.
2005 E. Muir Ritual in Early Mod. Europe (ed. 2) iii. vi. 204 In one church a stone- and egg-throwing fight broke out, which led to image breaking and the closing of all churches.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
image-breakingadj.
/ˈɪmɪdʒˌbreɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɪmɪdʒˌbreɪkɪŋ/ That breaks images; iconoclastic.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > iconoclasm > [adjective]
image-breaking1630
iconoclastic1640
iconoclast1685
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > breaking specific things
image-breaking1630
bone-breaking1644
ice-breaking1824
1630 J. Sharpe Triall Protestant Priuate Spirit ix. 230 The Holy Virgins, Confessours and Martyrs in tyme of most of the ten persecutions, and of the Arian, and image-breaking Emperours.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 208 That Learned Iconoclastes, that Image-breaking Enemie to Intellectual Idolatry [sc. Bacon].
1892 Newark (Ohio) Daily Advocate 23 Feb. It is an image breaking age.
1975 N. Z. Davis Soc. & Culture in Early Mod. France 326 The image-breaking band formed in 1562 in Mont-de-Marsan.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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