Definition of Sacrileges

1. Noun. (plural of sacrilege) ¹

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Definition of Sacrileges

1. sacrilege [n] - See also: sacrilege

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sacrileges

sacrifices
sacrificeth
sacrificial
sacrificial anode
sacrificial anodes
sacrificial lamb
sacrificial lambs
sacrificially
sacrificing
sacrified
sacrifier
sacrifiers
sacrifies
sacrify
sacrilege
sacrileges (current term)
sacrilegious
sacrilegiously
sacrilegiousness
sacrilegist
sacrilegists
sacrilicious
sacring
sacring-bell
sacring bell
sacrings
sacrist
sacristanry
sacristans

Literary usage of Sacrileges

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Account of the Transactions of His Majesty's Mission to the Court of by Harford Jones Brydges (1834)
"... Mahomet commenca à prendre les armes, ce fut un " présage des desseins sacrileges auxquels il devoit employer le " reste de sa vie." THK END. ..."

2. History of the French Revolution of 1789 by Louis Blanc (1848)
"Voltaire before the people, before kings, before priests—The Jansenists become subject to convulsions, and the Jesuits intolerant; sacrileges and ..."

3. The History and Fate of Sacrilege by Henry Spelman (1888)
"Of sacrileges committed under Queen Elizabeth, and in the Great Rebellion, and till the present time. WE will now leave the sacrilege connected with, ..."

4. The History and Fate of Sacrilege by Henry Spelman, Charles Frere Stopford Warren (1853)
"Of sacrileges committed under Queen Elizabeth, and in the Great Rebellion, and till the present time. We will now leave the sacrilege connected with, ..."

5. The History and Fate of Sacrilege by Henry Spelman, Charles Frere Stopford Warren (1895)
"The attempt and project upon the lands of the clergy in ike time of Henry IV. disappointed [and of other sacrileges until the Reformation. ..."

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