iconoclast — ONAD

iconoclast /īˈkänəˌklast, aɪˈkɑnəˌklæst

▸ noun

1 a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.

2 a destroyer of images used in religious worship.

▪ historical a supporter of the 8th- and 9th-century movement in the Byzantine Church which sought to abolish the veneration of icons and other religious images.

▪ historical a Puritan of the 16th or 17th century.

– ORIGIN mid 17th century (in iconoclast (SENSE 2)): via medieval Latin from ecclesiastical Greek eikonoklastēs, from eikōn ‘likeness’ + klan ‘to break’.