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desanctified

vb. (en-past of: desanctify)

Usage examples of "desanctified".

Like a priest who finds his church has been summarily desanctified, he had nowhere to go except to these hidey-holes, anonymous places with no aesthetic value, as if he were this same priest forced to conduct services in the basement of an office building.

It was Saint Something-or-Other, one of the great majority of churches long ago renamed 'museums', desanctified and euthenized by cultural restoration.