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desecration

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Desecration is a British death metal band formed in Newport , south Wales in 1992.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An act of disrespect or impiety towards something considered sacred.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desecration \Des`e*cra"tion\, n. The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1717, noun of action from desecrate (v.).

Usage examples of desecration.

There were other Asura races, too, committing other unspeakable acts of violence and desecration.

Iris with a small, set, misty smile ignoring the fact that Pete Chew was gaping wistfully at her from the circle of Toni, Tudor Blackwall, Mahala and Cy Fickerty, who were squatting on the stage and shooting craps, while Harry Mihick looked on them in sorrow at such desecration.

As a final act of desecration, he rolled her over onto her front and, with two deep sweeps of his knife, carved the sign of the cross on her naked back.

The corpse had long ago been spirited away and the tomb resealed to hide the traces of this desecration.

I thought that he meant merely to cover the desecration, but he had another plan, for he spread the cloak and then gathered up the defiling mass, folding it into the cloth.

And one million to gut it of all the modern desecrations and leave it the way it had been for the nuns in the 1880's, with chapel and refectory and dormitory rooms and wide corridors.

And one million to gut it of all the modern desecrations and leave it the way it had been for the nuns in the 1880s, with chapel and refectory and dormitory rooms and wide corridors.

But what­ ever the motive, the desecrations had driven their entire town into a frenzied state of horror and outrage.

Over the last few generations, we military types have done our little desecrations around the edges of the Dark.

Blackthorne and the crew were greatly disquieted by the desecration.

They then described to him the taking of a Christian city by Turkish troops, particularly by the irregulars, the utterly undisciplined bashi-bazouks employed by Ismail: murder of course, with women raped and men and children sodomized, but also monstrous desecration of churches, graves and everything holy.

All bowling alleys are sacred to Discordians and, if necessary, you must give your life to protect them from desecration - if anyone ever decides to desecrate bowling alleys.

When the Staff of Law, lost by Kevin at the Desecration, came within his influence, he gained a chance to bridge the gap between worlds-a chance to bring white gold into the Land.

But the lore of our life in Seareach since our ships found the Land contains many times many stories-tales of the reigns of Damelon Giantfriend and Loric Vilesilencer and Kevin, who is now called Landwaster-tales of the building, the carving out of the mountain, of Revelstone, revered rock, ‘a handmark of allegiance and fealty in the eternal stone of time,’ as Kevin once sang it, the mightiest making that the Giants have done in the Land, a temple for our people to look upon and remember what can be achieved-tales of the voyage which saved us from the Desecration, and of the many healings of the new Lords.

But the lore of our life in Seareach since our ships found the Land contains many times many stories-tales of the reigns of Damelon Giantfriend and Loric Vilesilencer and Kevin, who is now called Landwaster-tales of the building, the carving out of the mountain, of Revelstone, revered rock, `a handmark of allegiance and fealty in the eternal stone of time,' as Kevin once sang it, the mightiest making that the Giants have done in the Land, a temple for our people to look upon and remember what can be achieved-tales of the voyage which saved us from the Desecration, and of the many healings of the new Lords.