Inconoclast
The iconoclast both of the revolutionary and of the Napoleonic legends chills alike the heart of the worshippers at either shrine. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 Evelyn Baring Savonarola has sometimes been described as an iconoclast, obstinately hostile to the fine arts. Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 John Addington Symonds. To be called an iconoclast today is usually kind of cool — they're rugged individualists, bold thinkers who don't give a hoot what tradition calls for. But back in medieval Greece, the iconoclasts had a more thuggish reputation. With one stroke the iconoclast is now able to start the most powerful suction and force pump ever devised. From the Cambridge English Corpus Can we retrieve a meaning that would bring the broken.