iconoclast

Meaning

Noun

• One who destroys religious images or icons, especially an opponent of the Orthodox Church in the 8th and 9th centuries, or a Puritan during the European Reformation.
• One who opposes orthodoxy and religion; one who adheres to the doctrine of iconoclasm.
• One who attacks cherished beliefs.

Origin

• Borrowed from French iconoclaste, from Byzantine Greek εἰκονοκλάστης.