Clergies horrified about a deed such as this?

Usage examples of sacrilege.

In part, he was outraged at the sacrilege, but he was more frightened by far.

Perhaps it was that these men were by no means innocent picnickers, but trained, experienced debators who knew how to deal with sacrilege by their definitions.

I question the legality of anything beyond what has already been donea pronouncement by the College of Pontifices that Publius Clodius did commit sacrilege.

Yonder lady is the prophetess of Isis, Queen of all gods, Queen of Heaven and Earth, and to touch her with an unhallowed hand is a sacrilege that brings death in this world and in that to come everlasting torment.

A ladder had been planted for the assault, but it was furiously shaken by a crowd of zealots and women: they beheld, with pious transport, the ministers of sacrilege tumbling from on high and dashed against the pavement: and the honors of the ancient martyrs were prostituted to these criminals, who justly suffered for murder and rebellion.

Robert de Shurland, Knight, Baron of Shurland and Minster, and lord of Sheppey, and know all men, by these presents, that I do hereby attach roll, the said Robert, of murder and sacrilege, new, or of late, done and committed by you, the said Robert, contrary to the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity: and I do hereby require and charge you, the said Robert, to forthwith surrender and give up your own proper person, together with the castle of Shurland aforesaid, in order that the same may be duly dealt with according to law.

At the command of the Barbarians, the occult science of a philosopher was stigmatized with the names of sacrilege and magic.

She had been on foot, braced against the onslaught of the find legion, when the unborn foal had been raised by the Batavian murderers on the far side of the battlefield and word had passed, like fire in ripe corn, of the sacrilege.

Jeanne was not at fault, and yet the Lord Bishop of Beauvais and the clerks of the university were shortly to bring home to her the gravity of the sacrilege of laying hands on an ecclesiastical hackney.

I could not believe the heresies which I heard, and I prayed that my daughter Thuvia might have died before she ever committed the sacrilege of returning to the outer world.

For a second I considered tucking up my robe and running out of the church to avoid the eternal damnation that is the sure and just punishment for sacrilege, but Father Looney was holding the wafer out, frowning with impatience, so I opened my mouth and took it.

Although Lydians tend to be pro-Greek, they were in such a fury at the sacrilege shown to Cybele that the Lydian cavalry annihilated half the Greek forces on the road to Ephesus.

Mistress deKyper was already in the aircar, sizzling in fury at the Melungeon sacrilege.

And therefore it is manifest that whoever receives this sacrament while in mortal sin, is guilty of lying to this sacrament, and consequently of sacrilege, because he profanes the sacrament: and therefore he sins mortally.

Baptism begin to have its salutary effect, when truthful confession takes the place of that insincerity which hindered sins from being washed away, so long as the heart persisted in malice and sacrilege.