desecration

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/, /dɛ.səˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/, /dɛ.zəˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

desecration (countable and uncountable, plural desecrations)

1. An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.

   • 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57:

     In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.

Synonyms

• blasphemy
• sacrilege
• profanation

Derived terms

• host desecration
• nondesecration

 

Related terms

• desecrate

Translations

act of disrespect towards sacred

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• Armenian: սրբապղծություն (hy) (srbapġcutʻyun)
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• Bulgarian: оскверня́ване (bg) n (oskvernjávane)
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• Catalan: profanació f
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  Mandarin: 褻瀆／亵渎 (zh) (xièdú), 污辱 (wūrǔ)

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• Danish: vanhelligelse c
• Dutch: heiligschennis (nl) f, ontheiliging (nl) f
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• Finnish: häpäisy (fi), häväistys (fi), häpäiseminen (fi)
• French: profanation (fr) f
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• German: Profanierung (de) f, Profanation (de) f, Entheiligung f, Schändung (de) f, Entweihung f
• Greek: βεβήλωση (el) f (vevílosi)
• Hebrew: חילול \ חִלּוּל m (ḥilúl)
• Hungarian: megszentségtelenítés (hu)
• Indonesian: desekrasi
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• Japanese: 冒涜 (ja) (ぼうとく, bōtoku)
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• Maori: whakapokenga
• Middle English: pollucion
• Polish: zbezczeszczenie (pl) n, profanacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: profanação (pt) f
• Romanian: profanare (ro) f
• Russian: оскверне́ние (ru) n (oskvernénije), профана́ция (ru) f (profanácija), надруга́тельство (ru) n (nadrugátelʹstvo)
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-choisrigeadh m
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• Spanish: profanación (es) f
• Swedish: skändning (sv) c
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• Ukrainian: профана́ція f (profanácija)
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Anagrams

• considerate, decreations, resonicated