sacrilege

sacrilege
n
1. profanation, profaneness, profanity, cursing, blasphemy, desecration; mockery, irreverence, indevoutness, irreligion, impiety, impiousness, disrespect, disrespectfulness, unrespectfulness; ungodliness, unholiness, unrighteousness, unvirtuousness, immorality, godlessness; sinfulness, iniquity, peccancy, wickedness, reprobacy.
2. violation, defilement, perversion, contamination, infection, befoulment, pollution; vitiation, debasement, degradation, lowering, cheapening, dishonoring, prostitution; abuse, maltreatment, mistreatment, misuse, outrage

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  • Sacrilege — • The violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sacrilege     Sacrilege …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Sacrilege — is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object. In a less proper sense, any transgression against the virtue of religion would be a sacrilege. It can come in the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the… …   Wikipedia

  • SACRILEGE — SACRILEGE, the deliberate or inadvertent violation of sacred things. The Torah ordains the punishment of karet for anyone who deliberately flouts the sanctity of the Temple precincts or deviates in the slightest from any of the rules or rituals… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Sacrilege — Sac ri*lege, n. [F. sacril[ e]ge, 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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • sacrilege — (n.) c.1300, crime of stealing what is consecrated to God, from O.Fr. sacrilege (12c.), from L. sacrilegium temple robbery, from sacrilegus stealer of sacred things, from phrase sacrum legere to steal sacred things, from sacrum sacred object… …   Etymology dictionary

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  • sacrilege — [sak′rə lij΄] n. [ME < MFr < L sacrilegium < sacrilegus, temple robber < sacer, SACRED + legere, to gather up, take away: see LOGIC] 1. the act of appropriating to oneself or to secular use, or of violating, what is consecrated to God …   English World dictionary

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