Definition of Desecrator

1. n. One who desecrates.

Definition of Desecrator

1. Noun. A person who profanes or violates the sacredness or sanctity of something. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Desecrator

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desecrator

descrives
descry
descrying
deseasonalize
deseasonalized
deseasonalizes
deseasonalizing
desecrate
desecrated
desecrater
desecraters
desecrates
desecrating
desecration
desecrations
desecrator (current term)
desecrators
deseed
deseeded
deseeding
deseeds
desegmentation
desegrated
desegregate
desegregated
desegregates
desegregating
desegregation
desegregations
deselect

Literary usage of Desecrator

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

1. Notes and Commentaries on Chinese Criminal Law, and Cognate Topics: With by Ernest Alabaster, Chaloner Alabaster, China (1899)
"This applies chiefly to the tablets of ancestors of the desecrator, ... To destroy the ancestral tablet of his ancestor renders the desecrator liable to ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1889)
"As in German superstition, so also in that of the South Slavs, the man in the moon is a desecrator of the holy Sabbath rest. Sometimes he is a wood-cutter, ..."

3. Belgium and Holland, Including the Grandduchy of Luxembourg: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1901)
"Punishment of Heliodorus, the desecrator of the Temple ; 12. (farther on, in the retro-choir) Nativity ; 14. Preaching of John the Baptist; 16. ..."

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