OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 14117

desecration

/dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
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An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.
In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monaste…
It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
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