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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League officials said the Clippers violated salary cap rules by initiating off-court income opportunities and facilitating endorsement agreements for Kawhi Leonard, who was also fined $700,000.

— Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
Editor-in-chief Erik Slavin, publisher Max Lederer, and reporter Lara Korte at Stars and Stripes – a military news outlet that is partially funded by the Pentagon – claimed their dismissals were retaliatory and violated the First Amendment.

— Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA Today, 5 Sep. 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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Then in January 2026, according to police, a potential family member reached out to police and said the mausoleum and grave of a relative at Riverview Cemetery were unlawfully desecrated in 2002.

— David Chiu, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2026
Skeletal remains found in a Wilmington, Delaware, park 15 years ago have been identified as a woman who died in 1907, and whose gravesite was later desecrated.

— Joe Brandt, CBS News, 6 Sep. 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

Adjective

Despite offers, the Pentecostals there have declined to sell it back into secular use.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
While Insulet stock may face volatility from unrelated issues, the underlying secular demand for tubeless insulin delivery remains highly resilient against the GLP-1 wave.

— Harvey Stober, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026

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