image-breaker
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He appeared to be more of an image-breaker than he really was.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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
Any of us who dare love the iconoclast would be one if we dared sufficiently, and in this work I surely was an image-breaker, for the old house was more than it seemed.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Winthrop Packard
In attacking the masters, irreverent youth is only defending itself; the iconoclast or image-breaker is a Stylite who erects himself as an image, an icon.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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
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