Sacrilege

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The violation, desecration, or profanation of sacred things.
  • n. In a more specific sense: The alienation to laymen or to common purposes of that which has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.
  • n. The felonious taking of any goods out of any church or chapel.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    violation    irreverence   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    desecration   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    arson    perjury    blasphemy    homicide    impiety   
     
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