DESACRALIZED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in deconsecrated

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verb

past tense of desacralize

as in violated

to remove the sacred qualities or status of complained that contemporary society has desacralized and trivialized the celebration of Christmas

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Adjective

The rest hail from all over, and while the city’s cultural pull makes leisure guests the large majority, the huge gardens and event spaces like the Conventino, a deconsecrated 19th century church adjoining Palazzo del Nero, mean that the hotel is a popular venue too for social and corporate events.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Giuditta Brozzetti founded this atelier inside a deconsecrated church in the 1920s in order to help local women earn a living by weaving textiles.

— Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025

Definition of deconsecrated

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The department said the detectives who reported the affair violated three policies for conducting an unauthorized investigation and their use of Flock.

— Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Grisham alleged in the new lawsuit filed July 7 that Miller dragged her name into his dispute with Moreno and violated their agreement not to disparage each other.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of violated

Adjective

Beyond the number of cillíní and burial sites uncovered, the practices surrounding these unconsecrated grounds reveal a complex emotional landscape marked by grief, shame, and trauma, according to the press release.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026
Her fiancé killed himself out of grief and was buried nearby on unconsecrated ground.

— Joe Kloc, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023

Definition of unconsecrated

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The measure adds new grounds to Argentina’s immigration law, allowing authorities to bar, deport and revoke visas of people found to have promoted hatred against Argentines in spoken or written statements or who have desecrated national symbols.

— Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Those are the kinds of things that can't be broken into or taken away or desecrated.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026

Definition of desecrated

Adjective

Repetitive mental work in such unhallowed spaces also punished the mind and the soul.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Although the film never comes out and says it, Ohm was possibly conceived on these unhallowed grounds, so maybe he was just born cursed.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of unhallowed

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