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Definition of Iconoclasms
1. iconoclasm [n] - See also: iconoclasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iconoclasms
Literary usage of Iconoclasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1881)
"This is an age of iconoclasms; and daring hands are raised to sweep from its
pedestal, and dash to fragments, this false image of woman. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1895)
"The object of this work is a Metaphysic which, stalking naked, but not shamed,
among current iconoclasms, shall proffer a definite though necessarily ..."
3. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887)
"This is an age of iconoclasms; and daring hands are raised to sweep from its
pedestal, and dash to fragments, this false image of woman. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"From the chaos of wrecked institutions, abuses, and privileges, which reproduced,
on a gigantic scale, the iconoclasms of the fanatics of the Reformation, ..."
5. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"These are the iconoclasms of the Goth and Vandal at their first advent to Rome.
They remained to alter their mood, and extol what they had before assaulted; ..."
6. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"Its iconoclasms, sedition*, and blasphemies, if well turned, tickle those whom
they •bock; so that the Critic adds the privilèges of the court jester to ..."
7. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... of Josiah's iconoclasms at this spot. Ahaz and Manasseh hac no doubt maintained
and enlarged the original elections of Solomon. These Josiah demolished. ..."
8. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"... sprang up and are yet active, (1790, and on even to the present, 1870,) those
noisy eructations, destructive iconoclasms, a fierce sense of wrongs, ..."
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