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Example sentences for "desecration"

Lexicographically close words:
desdits; dese; desecrate; desecrated; desecrating; deseo; deserit; desert; deserta; deserte
  1. Such desecration is too deplorable for words suitable to describe it.

  2. All the Christian churches particularly, and the monasteries and other religious houses, were to be thus restored from the desecration which they had undergone, and consecrated anew to the service of Christ.

  3. But, seriously, I see no desecration here.

  4. No desecration in converting Gods house into a laboratory to analyze soul and spirit into function and force!

  5. The vicar had satisfied his conscience by protesting against the desecration of the chapel and the disastrous results of scientific research.

  6. But how could anything with such simple and solemn associations long escape desecration at Rome?

  7. But on no question was the old Scottish disciplinarian, whether elder or not, more sure to raise his testimony than on anything connected with a desecration of the Sabbath.

  8. The tourist of to-day will confirm this early impression, for in Egypt nothing gives one a more vivid idea of the enormous pains taken by the Pharaohs to preserve their dead from desecration than do these tombs.

  9. With a reiteration that becomes almost wearisome, but which is the measure of the need for the warning, Philo protests against this desecration of life, of liberty, and of Judaism.

  10. And they preferred hunger and famine to the desecration of the ancestral grave.

  11. To prevent such unholy desecration the Egyptians used to build small mounds of stones on top of the graves.

  12. Yes, he is a noble man, and to wrong him would be like the desecration of a temple," said his mother significantly.

  13. Come away; such thoughts are a desecration to the graves.

  14. The Mausoleum of Augustus and its precious contents have not escaped the spoliation and desecration which seem to be the rule both in past and modern times.

  15. I was deterred from further excavation at that place by the horror of my workmen at the desecration of the chamber.

  16. They at first objected to working in the cemeteries, regarding it as a desecration of the dead, but several of their number overcame their scruples, even handling skulls and other parts of skeletons.

  17. It was not at all like Sunday, and Paul was so shocked at the desecration of the day, that he was glad to regain the silence of his cabin in the Josephine.

  18. In the short reign of Jehoiachin the captivity begins, and the futile rebellion of Zedekiah leads to the deportation of his people, the burning of the Holy City, and the desecration of the Temple.

  19. The desecration which it received at the hands of Josiah reminded men of the threat of the unknown messenger.

  20. Suddenly the man of God appeared, and threatened to the altar the destruction and desecration which subsequently fell upon it.

  21. To the Mahommedans the possession of the Holy Places by the Christians was as great a humiliation as their desecration by the Mahommedans was to the crusaders.

  22. Imagine what a desecration of God's churches there would be, and what oppression of Christian people!

  23. Hence he went from regiment to regiment, repeating: "For the desecration of churches!

  24. They strenuously denied the charge and protested against the possibility of their allowing such a desecration of the premises.

  25. Then she returned to the church, after which she went abroad with the story of the horrible desecration through all Sorrento.

  26. His indignation at this desecration of a place that was so hallowed in his eyes could not be expressed.

  27. It rolled away at last, yet still hovered near them, every little while moving threateningly down, as though to drive them back, and prevent the crater from desecration by human footsteps.

  28. When the people became aware of this desecration of their idol, they set about apprehending the perpetrators.

  29. Temple; and the desecration of the sanctuary itself by violence and sacrilege, which will be more fully set forth in the next chapters.

  30. Law; puts down the daily sacrifice 169-8 Desecration of the Temple.

  31. I was apparently a prey to all disordered fancies that night, for it seemed a desecration that the little white hand should even bear the touch of another man's jacket, and I lifted it gently into my own hard palm.

  32. It was at this epoch that the desecration of scraping out the blazoned lys and the chipping off the graven Bourbon armoiries took place.


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    Other words:
    abomination; abuse; atrocity; blasphemy; conversion; defalcation; desecration; disgrace; diversion; embezzlement; ignominy; impiety; infamy; malfeasance; malpractice; misapplication; misappropriation; misconduct; mishandling; mismanagement; perversion; pilfering; pity; pollution; profanation; profanity; prostitution; sacrilege; scandal; shame; violation