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What is an iconoclast?

What is an iconoclast? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.
  2. One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm.
  3. One who attacks cherished beliefs.
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Her husband had been iconoclast, and he scourged those who would not receive his edict.
He was an iconoclast, a playboy and a man with an impressive instinct for when to buy, when to sell and when to get nasty.
Only few examples of this early period survived the destructive iconoclast fury of the VIII and IX century, especially those of small dimensions.
The Marque also revealed young talent like André Martin and René de Seynes and even the advertising iconoclast Jean-Paul Goude.
On the same day, Gabrielle, a sixty-something iconoclast, finds herself evicted from her antique shop and learns that she'll be a grandmother.
The image had been brought from Constantinople to Rome by some Greek nuns during the 9th century in order to protect it from the iconoclast fury.

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