Desecrate - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: desecrateDesecration
The act of desecrating profanation condition of anything desecrated...
Desecrator
One who desecrates...
Desecrate
To divest of a sacred character or office to divert from a sacred purpose to violate the sanctity of to profane to put to an unworthy use the opposite of consecrate...
Desecrater
One who desecrates a profaner...
Exauguration
The act of exaugurating desecration...
Pollute
To make foul impure or unclean to defile to taint to soil to desecrate used of physical or moral defilement...
Profanation
The act of violating sacred things or of treating them with contempt or irreverence irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred desecration as the profanation of the Sabbath the profanation of a sanctuary the profanation of the name of God...
Sacrilege
Sacrilege, larceny from a church. By s. 24, Larceny Act, 1916, breaking and entering any church, chapel, meeting-house, or other place of divine worship and committing any felony therein, or being therein and committing any felony therein, and breaking out of the same, is felony punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment. The offence was for a long time capital, the last execution having taken place in 1819.The act or an instance of desecrating or profaning a sacred thing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1336....
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