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US
/dɛsəˈkɹeɪʃən, dɛzəˈkɹeɪʃən/
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[ UK /dˌɛsɪkɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dˌɛsɪkɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
desecration of the Holy Sabbath
How To Use desecration In A Sentence
- A country discovering a successfull assassination, supporting rebels or desecration of holy site now gets a casus belli against the offender.
- If the Citadel's desecration had cut him to the core, then Tavern Street was like rubbing salt into the wound. TREASON KEEP
- Churches and graveyards suffered desecration and in some places destruction under subsequent regimes.
- Iran's ambassador to UNESCO complained to the organization's director over what he called the desecration of Islamic values in European countries. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- Human productivity and excellence, if achieved by way of human desecration and abuse, can only result in eventual catastrophe.
- We have no idea what kinds of shops are going to be in it and while it may not be a desecration, it dishonours the memory of what happened there,’ she said.
- Wayne and others, as desecration is undefined in the Amendment, Congress will be free to define the term in any manner it so chooses. Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: June 16, 2006
- The whole area has been shocked by the desecration of the cemetery.
- Such outbursts would not impress the public; expletives and desecrations of electoral oaths would thus remain behind closed doors.
- It's funny, PZ lobs the "Dark Ages" charge at all concerned, but his reaction fits the tone of the host desecration stories of the Middle Ages, too, if putting him on the other side, a character in the play or tale, rather than a promulgator of it. Pharyngula's Cracker