image-breaker
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He was alternately the worshipper and image-breaker of etiquette, ministerial and opposition party thereof, as his vanity dictated.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
Once in every half a century it is needful that the image-breaker should come along and knock on the head the brainless images of cant.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
To his contemporaries he appears as an image-breaker, but to the clearer vision of to-day he stands an unshakable barrier to lawless iconoclasm.
From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel
In that case our friend the image-breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London.
From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I do not know how the remarks of the image-breaker may strike others, but I feel that they put me on my defence with regard to much of my teaching.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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