单词	sacrilege
释义	sacrilegesac‧ri‧lege /ˈsækrəlɪdʒ/ noun [countable, uncountable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINsacrilege Origin: 1300-1400 Old French, Latin sacrilegium, from sacer ( ➔ SACRED) + legere ‘to gather, steal’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Sending a guest away with no food is sacrilege to my mother. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS After his lying here smelling this bad for three days filling up with crabs, any rites at all is sacrilege. But Cizek never on any account draws on a child's drawing; that would be a sacrilege. For their sacrilege, they were dispersed with guns and teargas, and three campuses were closed. It seemed a kind of sacrilege thus to arrange it and pull it about. Putting them to any secular use was considered sacrilege and was punishable by death. The thieves, however, were soon punished for the sacrilege. This is not the sacrilege some have made it out to be. Your colleague, it seems, must suffer the punishment set for sacrilege by the Askonian code. 1when someone treats something holy in a way that does not show respect2when someone treats something that another person thinks is very important or special without enough care or respectit is sacrilege (for somebody) to do something It’s sacrilege to even think of destroying that lovely building.—sacrilegious /ˌsækrəˈlɪdʒəs◂/ adjective
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