How To Use Sacrilege In A Sentence
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He was even prepared to utter what would once have been considered sacrilege.
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It is a sacrilege to his fawning American fans to think that he can do any wrong.
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It's sacrilege to even think of destroying that lovely building.
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my father considered the commercialization of Christmas to be a sacrilege
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It seemed to her that her sin partook of sacrilege or blasphemy.
Chapter 4
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The desolating sacrilege, the "abomination of desolations," an unambiguous reference to Antiochus' rededication of the temple to Zeus Olympus Ba'al Shomem and sacrifice of a pig on the altar.
Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper
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The flood has reached its climax and after the destruction, terror, murder, and sacrilege practiced by the aggressive, terrorist, and criminal Zionist entity, together with its tyrannical ally, the U.S., have come to a head against our brothers and our faithful struggling people in plundered Palestine.
Tales of the Tyrant
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Knowing myself too great a sinner to merit so sacred a morsel, I slipped it into my sabretache, and wish myself near E., whose innocence might allow her to eat it without sacrilege.
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Hence according to the present judgment the pain of death is not inflicted for theft which does not inflict an irreparable harm, except when it is aggravated by some grave circumstance, as in the case of sacrilege which is the theft of a sacred thing, of peculation, which is theft of common property, as
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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It would be sacrilege to alter the composer's original markings.
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At the grave risk of committing sacrilege, let's tread some dangerous ground infested with landmines.
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Intervention by authority was necessary for very serious sins such as adultery, murder, and sacrilege.
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Others, touching on areas that range from elements of sexuality, to the treatment of the dead and dying, to bodily indignity and even profanity and sacrilege, are of course more controversial.
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Inaccurate representation of the holy is the greatest sacrilege against the holy.
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She regarded the damage done to the painting as sacrilege.
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Cutting it down would be considered sacrilege in the average city park or shade garden—I'm not a big fan of gingkoes, but this was one of the more attractive specimens I've seen—but Erica Packard, the executive director of the Bronx and Manhattan Land Trusts, the community garden's new owner, didn't seem adverse to the idea.
A Sunny Plot to Feel Good
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Renaming the ground KitKat Crescent is sacrilege.
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It's like this hang-up you have, like I'm committing some kind of sacrilege.
SPIDERTOWN
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Most, or all, of the witnesses agree in representing him as an atrocious Satanist, an invoker of Lucifer, a celebrater of black masses, and an adept in the practical blasphemies of Eucharistic sacrilege; all of them father either upon the Palladium or upon Pike a variety of documents containing gross thefts from Lévi; some of them, directly and upon their own responsibility, cite passages from his works, always with conspicuous bad faith.
Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
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The Jews should have responded to this sacrilege by mourning and distancing themselves.
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The cult of the Roman emperor was sacrilege to Jews and Christians.
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Kill discreetly two minotaurs since their body parts are highly sought commodities - it is a sacrilege to even provoke the powerful and long lived beings as they have a storied past helping Caeli Amur against enemies - so, using the oldest trick in the book, Kata goes bar-hopping to "seduce" her victims.
"PS Showcase 8 - The Library of Forgotten Books" by Rjurik Davidson (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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Their performances invariably involve roughly equal measures of cruelty, obscenity, sacrilege, diabolism, and Norse paganism (thus accomplishing the difficult feat of simultaneously blaspheming both the Christian God and Odin).
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He also stated that to mix the psalms and uninspired hymns together is sacrilege.
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“The court declares the accused duly attainted and convicted of superstitions, impieties, sacrileges, profanations, and poisonings.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation.
Life of John Milton
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There are some that detest them as a kind of sacrilege and count it the height of impiety to speak so irreverently of such hidden things, rather to be adored than explicated; to dispute of them with such profane and heathenish niceties; to define them so arrogantly and pollute the majesty of divinity with such pithless and sordid terms and opinions.
In Praise of Folly
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It would be sacrilege to alter the composer's original markings.
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The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary.
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That we can still think of wringing out a song from all this is worse than heresy, blasphemy, sacrilege.
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The former teen idol stands accused of musical sacrilege.
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The "theft" immediately meant is similar sacrilege to that complained of in Ne 13: 10; Mal 3: 8.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The desolating sacrilege, the "abomination of desolations," an unambiguous reference to Antiochus' rededication of the temple to Zeus Olympus Ba'al Shomem and sacrifice of a pig on the altar.
Intelligently-Designed Narratives: Mythicism as History-Stopper
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This is a sacred "temenos," an inviolate grove, set apart to some god; and within the fences of the compound no mortal dare set foot under pain of direful sacrilege and pollution.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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A beard and a mustache have been added to the face of the devil in the picture, so that the killer is guilty of sacrilege no less than murder.
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For example, we remember how it was practically a sacrilege to mention the word agrarian reform in the
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR LATIN AMERICA
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Likening him to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela is sacrilege.
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‘In fact whoever is responsible for these acts of sacrilege have also tried to demolish the dividing wall that interlinks both cemeteries there,’ said the Canon.
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`About murder and sacrilege, crimes as sordid as any treason!
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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In Hinduism, then, the wanton destruction of forests is not just something merely inexpedient, it is a sacrilege.
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It would be a sacrilege to put a neon sign on that beautiful old building.
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Yet it would be the sin against the Spirit itself ever to attempt such a thing, and upon such a figure as that it would be sacrilege.
A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
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There's also grilled red onions, but I usually do without those: that's pastrami sacrilege.
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It is sacrilege to steal a crucifix from an altar.
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The four knights tried to drag him outside, to avoid aggravating their sacrilege by defiling the sanctuary.
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As the handsome and distinguished-looking bridegroom stood before the altar awaiting the entrance of his bride, it were almost sacrilege to utter a word deprecatory or otherwise.
Marguerite Verne
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Without wishing to overegg the pudding, that is sacrilege.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parson Hooper pointed out that it would threaten St Pinnock's holy well: `Have we not seen enough sacrilege of late?
THE MAIN CAGES
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The pope and the sacred college had never been dazzled by his specious professions; they were justly offended by the insolence of his conduct; a cardinal legate was sent to Italy, and after some fruitless treaty, and two personal interviews, he fulminated a bull of excommunication, in which the tribune is degraded from his office, and branded with the guilt of rebellion, sacrilege, and heresy.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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But as time passed and as the age of the Kami became more remote, a feeling of awe began to pervade the rites more strongly than a sense of family affection, and the idea of residing and worshipping in the same place assumed a character of sacrilege.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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Justifying their occupation of Delium, the Athenians call the Boeotian refusal to return their dead a greater sacrilege.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed.
Chapter 9
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At the synod a catalogue of John's crimes was presented, ranging from rape to sacrilege.
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For the Actionists, as for the artists cited above, there is no notion of sacrilege or blasphemy.
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It is a sacrilege to offend democracy.
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The dechristianization of France began with the sacrilege of the Church in it's people, to its buildings and the institution of a radically different replacement.
Archive 2008-05-04
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I apologise to any purists in case the following suggestion is seen as something of a sacrilege, but can I ask you to help us in calling all Yorkshire poets, rhymesters, bards, balladeers and singers to help us save our pub?
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Nowadays however, in the average suburban home, afternoon tea is likely to be just a biscuit or small cake and a mug oftea, usually produced using a teabag. Sacrilege!
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Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris.
Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
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The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies.
THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
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She regarded the damage done to the painting as sacrilege.
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I think there's a compelling case to be made that, by and large, an appropriator from a dominant culture carrying out such an act is likely to be doing so for negative motives and to negative results, that historically such cross-cultural sacrilege is motivated by misrepresentation and discrimination and aimed towards furthering misrepresentation and discrimination.
Archive 2006-09-01
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But even in default of real masses with ordained celebrants, the people possessed by the mania of sacrilege do none the less realize the sacred stupration of which they dream.
Là-bas
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She could tell he considered such sacrilege a bad omen for their expedition inland.
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The cult of the Roman emperor was sacrilege to Jews and Christians.
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This noble, chivalrous gesture must have seemed like sacrilege or blasphemy to them, and they were probably afraid of the spirits of the dead.
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So, I cut it up yes, probably a sacrilege and made her garter, ring-beare's pillow, and some other things out of the dress and lace.
Wedding Gown -- Found!
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It would be a sacrilege to put a neon sign on that beautiful old building.
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King had wisely left the business to Parliament, and, when the circumstances of the times, and the sincere horror in which good men held what they called regicide and sacrilege are duly considered, it must be owned that Parliament acted with humanity and moderation.
Life of John Milton
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The discovery of a sixth-century graveyard also led to a complaint of sacrilege from ultra-Orthodox Jews.
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Some might consider this sacrilege, but the contrast with Shakespeare's play, Othello, is striking.
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Why is the term 'functioning' alcoholic acceptable, but, if one couples the word functioning with other things, it's sacrilege?
The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
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All movement ceases, the sky clears, the heavens are as brass; the slightest whisper seems sacrilege, and man becomes timid, affrighted at the sound of his own voice.
THE WHITE SILENCE
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Rejecting a person begging for protection counted as sacrilege.
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It is heresy, sacrilege, a pockmark upon the face of our National Pastime!
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Refusal in payment, forgery or any other misuse thereby became treason or sacrilege and attracted savage penalties.
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Eternal city of love and faith, of Venus and the Vatican, of sacrament and sacrilege.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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This may seem like sacrilege, but take out a ruler and some scissors and - it's okay, you can do it - cut the scarf in half.
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If not, come to gawk at a level of sacrilege no other religious culture would even dream of condoning.
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Some classical moralists debated whether such sins involving a priest consecrated both by ordination and by a vow of chastity constituted one or two sacrileges.
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Here, huddled together in confused, hopeless misery and ruin, lie, fettered and prostrate, even priest as well as potentate, undistinguishable victims of crude, unblenching violence, with its climax of nefarious sacrilege.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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On paper, it does sound like sacrilege for this screen goddess to wear a silly hat, get drunk, and make a public scene.