Sacrilege Definition
Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
Other Word Forms of Sacrilege
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Origin of Sacrilege
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Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred". From Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious"), from phrase sacrum legere, from sacrum (from sacer (“sacred, holy")) + legō (“gather; take, steal"), from Proto-Indo-European *sak- and Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-. Sense of “profanation" from late 14th century.
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Middle English from Old French from Latin sacrilegium from sacrilegus one who steals sacred things sacer sacred sacred legere to gather leg- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Unrelated to religion, which is ultimately from ligō (“I tie, bind, or bandage"), from Proto-Indo-European *leygÊ°- (“to bind").
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