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Definition of Desecraters
1. desecrater [n] - See also: desecrater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desecraters
Literary usage of Desecraters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... image-breakers and tomb- desecraters arrives from the Quaker City excursion,
and they will infallibly dig it up and carry it away with them. ..."
2. All Adventure: She Who Must Be Obeyed by H. Rider Haggard (2001)
"... and half expecting to see the spirits those flaming forms had once enclosed
come creeping from the shadows to work vengeance on their desecraters. ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1906)
"He said that it had been his purpose to set up the house in his Museum, keep it
in repair, protect it from name-scribblers and other desecraters, and leave ..."
4. The American Negro: What He Was, what He Is, and what He May Become; a by William Hannibal Thomas (1901)
"It is well known that desecraters of human welfare boldly stalk into negro
sanctuaries, overshadow the pews, dominate the altars, invade the precincts of ..."
5. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1858)
"... of the long-departed true dramatists, especially those of the Bard of Avon,
do not rise up in judgment against us for even suffering its desecraters. ..."
6. The Church of To-day: A Plea by Joseph Henry Crooker (1908)
"It is a serious question whether our great captains of industry and leaders of
society are not the worst desecraters of the Sabbath that the world has ever ..."
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