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Definition of the day : « desecration »
- noun violation, abuse
- God's voice against the desecration of His image spoke in the soul.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- My father's old place was at peace for a time, the desecration done with.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- It would be a desecration for us to use a penny of his in our new life.
- Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
- I have not voluntarily been guilty of any desecration of holy Names.'
- Extract from : « The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Do you suppose I'm thinking of that, and not of the desecration, the outrage, the horror?
- Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
- The thing she proposed was to him, as he had truly said, a desecration, a defilement.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights Entertainment, Second Series » by Rafael Sabatini
- Had the desecration of sans-culottisme proceeded so far as this?
- Extract from : « Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) » by Charles Morris
- It seems a desecration of you; but if there is no other way we will grant 'the powers' audience.
- Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland
- It was desecration that her name should be mentioned in that room.
- Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- It did not occur to her that any words of hers could be other than a desecration of those minutes.
- Extract from : « A Woman's Will » by Anne Warner