iconoclast

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Etymology: From Medieval Greek "eikonoklasts" based on eikon, “image, picture,” and –klasts, “breaker” from klan “to break.” The original iconoclast was Byzantine Emperor Leo III, who prohibited religious images (icons) in Greece from 726 on the grounds they had become idols, worshipped for their magical powers. Empress Theodora lifted the ban in 843. Countless works of religious art were destroyed in the intervening century. Iconoclasm reared its head again during the Protestant Reformation when images were again taken to be idolatrous and were once again destroyed.bot/šâluda-škan
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[ai'konouklAEst] n 1. рел. иконоборец; 2. прен. борец срещу отживели вярвания и пр.

s. m., adj. m. (sil. -clast), pl. iconocláşti; f. sg. iconoclástă, pl. iconocláste