desecrated

English

Adjective

desecrated (comparative more desecrated, superlative most desecrated)

1. Having been desecrated or violated.
   • 1855, John Cumming, Signs of the Times: Or, Present, Past, and Future, page 206:

     And the Apostle tells us it will be so; that all things wait for this, when the earth will be restored, all creation's deserts rejoice and blossom as the rose; when its most desecrated spots will be consecrated, its most barren spots fertilised, and the Paradise that shall end the world be more glorious, beautiful, and fair, than the Paradise with which the world began.

   • 1868, Newman Hall, Sermons, page 29:

     But was the place more desecrated by such a beneficial employment of it than by being shut up empty in dark and cold ?

   • 2019, Sheldon Winkler, The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories, page 36:

     It was not just the French who felt desecrated, but also the Allies.

   • 2024, Julie Hanlon Rubio, Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist?, page 127:

     As theologian Shawn Copeland argues, "No Christian teaching has been more desecrated by slavery than the doctrine of the human person or theological anthropology."

Derived terms

• undesecrated

 

Verb

desecrated

1. simple past and past participle of desecrate