Sentence example with the word 'iconoclast'

iconoclast

annihilator, arsonist, bomber, burner, destroyer, dynamiter, exterminator, idol breaker, irreligionist, nihilist, syndicalist, vandal, wrecker

Definition n. a destroyer of images used in religious worship

Last update: September 7, 2015


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He is an iconoclast because he does not follow the beliefs blindly.   [noun]

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His son Gegnesius in 722 was taken to Constantinople, where he won over to his opinions the iconoclast emperor, Leo the Isaurian.   [noun]

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The iconoclast emperor Leo V., an Armenian, persecuted the sect afresh, and provoked a rising at Cynoschora, whence many fled into Saracen territory to Argaeum near Melitene.   [noun]

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What had this young iconoclast offered him after her infernal era of destruction.   [Please select]

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Leo the Isaurian, who came to the throne of Constantinople in 717, was a most zealous Iconoclast.   [Please select]

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Even to a temperamental iconoclast such as O'Rane, I fancy Burgess came as a revelation.'   [Please select]

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Bishop Berkeley was from one point of view a great philosophic iconoclast, though he destroyed only that he might build up.   [Please select]

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It was necessary that the presumptuous iconoclast should be put down, and taught not to meddle with things which were sacred.   [Please select]

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