Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

onomatoclast

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ono-ma-to-clast
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An opponent of onomatodoxy.

Derogatory

Example Sentences

"[…] they at first were unable to present to the onomatoclasts the teaching concerning the divinity of the Name of God that they knew through their experience of prayer, but were not always able to articulate in words."
"According to the self-proclaimed apologists of imjaslavie the onomatoclasts, in rejecting the divinity of the revealed names and God's undivided presence therein, sided with Palamas's opponent Barlaam of Calabria, who had denied the full divinity of God's energies and their inseparability from His essence."
"An onomatoclast sees a face as a mere mask, perceives an icon as piece of wood and hears a name as an empty sound."

Etymology

From onomato- (back-formation from onomatodoxy) + -clast, by analogy with iconoclast, from Byzantine Greek κλάω (kláō, “to break”).

Word Breakdown

Root: κλάω

Usage

Derogatory

Inflected Forms

onomatoclasts (plural)

Questions

What does onomatoclast mean?: An opponent of onomatodoxy.
Where does onomatoclast come from?: From onomato- (back-formation from onomatodoxy) + -clast, by analogy with iconoclast, from Byzantine Greek κλάω (kláō, “to break”).

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