iconoclast: [17] The original iconoclasts were members of the Eastern Orthodox church in the 8th and 9th centuries AD who were opposed to the use or worship of religious images. In more extreme cases their opposition took the form of smashing icons (the word iconoclast comes via medieval Latin from medieval Greek eikonoklástēs, a compound formed from eikón ‘icon’ and the verb klan ‘break’).
The term subsequently came to be applied to extreme Protestants in England in the 16th and 17th centuries who expressed their disapproval of graven images (and popish practices in general) in similar ways. Its general use for an ‘attacker of orthodoxy’ dates from the early 19th century.
iconoclast (n.)
"breaker or destroyer of images," 1590s, from French iconoclaste and directly from Medieval Latin iconoclastes, from Late Greek eikonoklastes, from eikon (genitive eikonos) "image" + klastes "breaker," from klas- past tense stem of klan "to break" (see clastic). Originally those in the Eastern Church in 8c. and 9c. whose mobs of followers destroyed icons and other religious objects on the grounds that they were idols. Applied to 16c.-17c. Protestants in Netherlands who vandalized former Catholic churches on similar grounds. Extended sense of "one who attacks orthodox beliefs or institutions" is first attested 1842.
雙語例句
1. Cage was an iconoclast. He refused to be bound by western musical traditions of harmony and structure.
凱奇是個反傳統的人。他拒絕接受西方有關和聲和結構的音樂傳統的束縛。
來自辭典例句
2. But he shows little sign of being an iconoclast.
但他表現出他是一個信念很強的人.
來自互聯網
3. I hope I'm an iconoclast. My role is the one who doesn't give a hoot.
我希望我能成為叛逆者,畢竟自己只是個小角色.
來自互聯網
4. Like many an iconoclast, Mr Zhang's roots lay in the things he despised.