iconoclasm's Usage Examples:

ossifyrnist impatience with ossified form is frequently misunderstood; Sinclair's dissatisfaction with words is the iconoclasm of an image-maker, not a nihilist.

iconoclasm in motion 20 December 2001 Linda Grant says anti-semitism is on the rise.

But in spite of the severity with which the resolution was enforced, the resistance to iconoclasm continued, chiefly owing to the attitude of the monks, who exercised great influence over the common people.

From the standpoint of the popular religion, the removal of the local altars, like Hezekiah's destruction of the brazen serpent, would be an act of desecration, an iconoclasm which can be partly appreciated from the sentiments of 2 Kings xviii.

And it is important to remark that the protagonists of iconoclasm in Byzantium came from these lands where image cult offended the deepest religious instincts of the masses.

We still have fundamentalist iconoclasm; for example, the Taliban.

For Virilio, a pitiless synergy inflames modern violence and modern iconoclasm.

He also opposed iconoclasm and checked the advancing Lombards.

Synonyms:

heresy, unorthodoxy, heterodoxy,

Antonyms:

unoriginality, conformism, conformity, orthodoxy,