Desecration Definition

Desecration Sentence Examples

• Rubin seeks to go beyond a mere chronicle of the most notorious host desecration episodes.

• The earlier caliphs desired their tombs to be kept secret, for fear of desecration.

• From the standpoint of the popular religion, the removal of the local altars, like Hezekiah's destruction of the brazen serpent, would be an act of desecration, an iconoclasm which can be partly appreciated from the sentiments of 2 Kings xviii.

• On the intervention of Agrippa the order was countermanded, and the assassination of the emperor (41) effectually stopped the desecration.

• Zealously carrying out the conditions of the peace, the peasants not only battered down the detested forts, they even destroyed the chapel at the Harzburg and committed other acts of desecration.