Found 3 hits - Term: sacrilege, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sacrilege \sac"rilege\, n. f. sacril`ege, l. sacrilegium,
from sacrilegus that steals, properly, gathers or picks up,
sacred things; sacer sacred + legere to gather, pick up. see
sacred, and legend.
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.
1913 webster
and the hid treasures in her sacred tomb
with sacrilege to dig. --spenser.
1913 webster
families raised upon the ruins of churches, and
enriched with the spoils of sacrilege. --south.
1913 webster
see also:
sacred legend
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sacrilege
n : blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its
sacred character; "desecration of the holy sabbath" syn:
profanation, desecration, blasphemy
see also:
profanation desecration blasphemy
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
40 moby thesaurus words for "sacrilege":
abomination, abuse, atrocity, befouling, befoulment,
blasphemousness, blasphemy, contamination, crime, debasement,
defilement, desecration, disgrace, dishonoring, disrespect,
fouling, heresy, ignominy, impiety, impiousness, infamy,
irreverence, maltreatment, misuse, offense, outrage, perversion,
pity, profanation, profaneness, profanity, prostitution,
sacrilegiousness, scandal, secularization, shame, sin,
terrible thing, violation, vitiation
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