Synonyms for iconoclastic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ahy-kon-uh-klas-tik

Phonetic Transcription : aɪˌkɒn əˈklæs tɪk

Définition of iconoclastic

Origin : 1640s; see iconoclast + -ic.

adj skeptical
adj irreligious

Example sentences :

It might have been a church, and the militia a regiment of Cromwell's iconoclastic Puritans.
Extract from : « Mistress Wilding » by Rafael Sabatini

But his mother had arranged it, so in a way it was immune from his iconoclastic rage.
Extract from : « The Rough Road » by William John Locke

After Mazarin came Foucquet, the great, the iconoclastic, the unfortunate.
Extract from : « The Tapestry Book » by Helen Churchill Candee

(the Isaurian) promulgated his iconoclastic edict in the Eastern Empire.
Extract from : « The Cathedral Builders » by Leader Scott

This crystallised the Iconoclastic elements of opposition into a party.
Extract from : « The Rise of the Mediaeval Church » by Alexander Clarence Flick

Its nature is iconoclastic and it may exist without ideas of reconstruction.
Extract from : « English Secularism » by George Jacob Holyoake

Negations, useful in their place, are iconoclastic—not constructive.
Extract from : « The Principles Of Secularism » by George Jacob Holyoake

So iconoclastic an outburst was sure to elicit vindicators of the world's faith as it had long been held.
Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery » by Justin Winsor

The great Iconoclastic reform, which arose in the East, undoubtedly received its originating impulse from the Moslems.
Extract from : « Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) » by Charles Reginald Haines

He died in 839 in secure possession of his see, and with his Iconoclastic belief unshaken.
Extract from : « Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) » by Charles Reginald Haines

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