SACRILEGE


Meaning of SACRILEGE in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Sending a guest away with no food is sacrilege to my mother.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After his lying here smelling this bad for three days filling up with crabs, any rites at all is sacrilege .

But Cizek never on any account draws on a child's drawing; that would be a sacrilege .

For their sacrilege , they were dispersed with guns and teargas, and three campuses were closed.

It seemed a kind of sacrilege thus to arrange it and pull it about.

Putting them to any secular use was considered sacrilege and was punishable by death.

The thieves, however, were soon punished for the sacrilege .

This is not the sacrilege some have made it out to be.

Your colleague, it seems, must suffer the punishment set for sacrilege by the Askonian code.

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