desecration
desecration
Definition
des·ecra·tion (des′i krā′s̸hən)
noun
a desecrating or being desecrated
desecration
Synonyms
desecration
n.
desecration
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- Sabbath: Nor the individual who has endeavored to create alarm about " The Chartist desecration of the Sabbath " by telling a barefaced lie.
- grave: Crimestoppers is offering a reward of up to £ 5,000 in connection with the desecration of the grave of Gladys Hammond in Yoxall.
- cemetery: The number of recorded anti-semitic acts, desecrations of cemeteries and such, increased tenfold after the millenium.
- Mrs: However, he feels that the sickening desecration of Mrs Hammond's grave has proved to be the last straw.
Converse of object
- investigate: The move followed " fresh information " received by the team investigating the desecration of Gladys Hammond's grave.
- condemn: French officials have condemned the desecration but dismissed it as a one-off incident, probably the responsibility of the far right.
- see: We were less pleased to see the desecration of a memorial to Graham Palmer, a pioneer of the restoration of the Montgomery canal.
- suffer: The side benches were shorter and it was in this form that the temple was finally abandoned, but not before suffering desecration.
Adjective modifier
- grave: Two are being held at Stafford police station, where they will be questioned about the grave desecration.
- further: For this further desecration, the villain is executed in the most horrible manner.
- public: This hugely symbolic event was arguably a ritual act of public desecration which transgressed the most sacred site of communist public space.
- Chartist: Nor the individual who has endeavored to create alarm about " The Chartist desecration of the Sabbath " by telling a barefaced lie.
- recent: The discussion widened to cover other issues as well, such as the media propaganda and the recent grave desecration.
- general: Above all may we have grace given us to reverence and keep holy the Sabbath day amid so much awful and general desecration.
Noun used with modifier
- host: Rubin seeks to go beyond a mere chronicle of the most notorious host desecration episodes.
- grave: Date: 27 September 2005 Five arrests -- Yoxall grave desecration Five people were arrested this morning in connection with the Yoxall grave desecration.
- synagogue: It looks at the traditional indicators of antisemitism: incidents on the streets, synagogue desecrations, and other hate crimes.
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