Iconoclastically

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In an iconoclastic manner.

    "In the later lectures, which would lead to A Pluralistic Universe, James abandoned the earlier heroic stance, where he taunted European idealists and iconoclastically defied the new mechanistic science by suggesting supernatural rescue."

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"In the later lectures, which would lead to A Pluralistic Universe, James abandoned the earlier heroic stance, where he taunted European idealists and iconoclastically defied the new mechanistic science by suggesting supernatural rescue."

Etymology

From iconoclastic + -ally.

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