What is "sacrileges"

Usage examples of "sacrileges".

For practical purposes the lake had no bottom at all, and Master Li turned bright red while he scorched the air with the Sixty Sequential Sacrileges with which he had won the all-China Freestyle Blasphemy Competition in Hangchow three years in a row.

Knowing what a grievous mistake it would be to read such sacrileges in the presence of the One, I decided to replace them with the story of the ascension of Our Dark Lord, which every child in the Church of Cyric learns by heart.

I knew only that Rinda's journal made as much sense as the Dark Truth, and that her sacrileges explained what I had observed with my own eyes: namely, that the One's Church was tearing itself apart, and that Cyric had to be a lunatic to send a humble merchant such as me after the Cyrinishad.

And if there was any truth to Rinda's sacrileges at all - which I doubted most sincerely, of course - the only way to counter the Cyrinishad's power was to read the True Life of Cyric, and the only way for me to find the True Life was to follow Rinda's journey back to where she had last seen Fzoul Chembryl.

Now if magistrates confounding things should inquire also into hidden sacrileges, this inquisition would be directed to a kind of action that does not at all require it: the liberty of the subject would be subverted by arming the zeal of timorous as well as of presumptuous consciences against him.