Definition of desecration
: an act or instance of desecrating : the state of being desecrated
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the communicants were aghast at the desecration of the altar
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The students at the vanguard of Saturday’s March for Our Lives — arms locked tightly, voices raised in fiery defiance — could plant a glimmer of hope even in a heart utterly broken by the desecrations of the last year or so.
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The indigenous groups of the region also organized to address the desecration of native burial sites.
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Where some see progress, others see desecration and impending doom.
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Pete Marker, 66, pleaded guilty Thursday to felony desecration of a human body and was sentenced to two years' probation.
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This, and the fact that he was dressed as a girl, would be of no interest to anyone outside the city’s grimy underworld, except for the killer’s unusually brutal desecration of the corpse.
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Cabernets, merlots and syrahs have all these blendings going on, and that’s a good thing, but to blend pinot noir would be a desecration.
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Hanukkah, also known as the Jewish Festival of Lights, is an eight-night celebration which commemorates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century BC after its desecration by a pagan ruler.
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But the desecration of Sava’s body wasn’t to be the final tumultuous moment in his story.
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First Known Use of desecration
circa 1717
desecration Synonyms
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blasphemy, defilement, impiety, irreverence, profanation, sacrilege;
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