aniconist

English

Etymology

From an- +‎ icon +‎ -ist.

Noun

aniconist (plural aniconists)

1. A proponent of aniconism.
   • 1971, Krishna Kumar Dixit, Jaina Ontology, page 2:

     As can be legitimately surmised the aniconists must have rejected those texts which to them appeared to support Iconolatory, but from the point of view of the evolution of Jaina thought the texts rejected by them deserve as serious notice as those accepted by them.

   • 2009, Jan Assmann, Moses the Egyptian, →ISBN, page 42:

     But idolatry means more than iconism. It is a polemical term which expresses a strong cultural/religious abomination and anxiety. With the term "idolatry," the "aniconists" refer to the "iconists" as the group where the strongest menace resides.

   • 2011, Josh Ellenbogen, Aaron Tugendhaft, Idol Anxiety, →ISBN, page 28:

     According to the aniconists, images idolize the world and blind the eyes from being able to look beyond the world and focus on the creator.

Adjective

aniconist (comparative more aniconist, superlative most aniconist)

1. Pertaining to aniconism.
   • 1946, Arnold Toynbee, David Churchill Somervell, A Study of History: Abridgement of Vols I-VI:

     Islam was as fanatically monotheist and aniconist as any Jew could desire, and the sensational successes of its devotees in the military — and soon also in the missionary — field gave Christendom something new to think about.

   • 2008, Lars Eckstein, Barbara Korte, Eva Ulrike Pirker, Multi-ethnic Britain 2000+:, →ISBN:

     Needless to say, figural expression about, and emerging from, a Muslim cultural context do not necessarily address, negotiate, or react to, aniconist claims.

   • 2015, Hannah Ewence, Helen Spurling, Visualizing Jews Through the Ages, →ISBN:

     However, given the attempts to enshrine the Holocaust in the shroud of aniconism (as is evident from the ferocity of the debates surrounding Adorno), it also suggests the potential of Zionis cultural outputs to liberate Holocaust representation from the restrictive framework of aniconist tendencies.

Anagrams

• aconitins, antiscion, inactions, onanistic