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Definition of Sacrilege

1. Noun. Blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character. "Desecration of the Holy Sabbath"

Definition of Sacrilege

1. n. The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.

Definition of Sacrilege

1. Noun. desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred ¹

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Definition of Sacrilege

1. [n -S]

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Literary usage of Sacrilege

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is customary to enumerate three kinds of sacrilege, personal, local, and real. ... Personal sacrilege means to deal so irreverently with a sacred person ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is customary to enumerate three kinds of sacrilege, personal, local, and real. ... Personal sacrilege means to deal so irreverently with a sacred person ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The whole wide field of Jewish taboo naturally involves sacrilege as its reverse side. Such violations of holy things as making mock of the Scriptures, ..."

4. The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler (1899)
"His style and intellectual habits are well illustrated by his speeches opposing the death penalty for sacrilege and denouncing the proposed press-censorship ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The whole wide field of Jewish taboo naturally involves sacrilege as its reverse side. Such violations of holy things as making mock of the Scriptures, ..."

6. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"That the ancients reckoned it the sin of sacrilege to divide the communion without reason, and deny men the use of the cup, needs no other proof at present ..."

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