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Noun Concept

Categories: Protestant Reformation, Religious persecution, Christian terminology, Articles with short description, Iconoclasm

iconoclasm iconoclasts Icon destruction Iconclasm Icono clasm

The orientation of an iconoclast WordNet 3.0

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The orientation of an iconoclast WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Iconoclasm is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons. Wikipedia

Avoidance or destruction of religious icons Wikidata

The deliberate destruction within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. OmegaWiki

The belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives. Wiktionary

Belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons. Wiktionary (translation)

By extension: attacking cherished beliefs. Wiktionary (translation)

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HAS INSTANCE

removal of Confederate monuments and memorials

DERIVATION

iconoclastic