| 单词 | sacrilegious |
| 释义 | sacrilegious —sacrilegiously, adv. —sacrilegiousness, n. /sak'reuh lij"euhs, -lee"jeuhs/, adj. 1. pertaining to or involving sacrilege: sacrilegious practices. 2. guilty of sacrilege: a sacrilegious person. [1400-50; late ME sacrilegiose; see SACRILEGE, -OUS] Pronunciation. The almost universal pronunciation of SACRILEGIOUS as /sak'reuh lij"euhs/ is the result of folk etymology - modifying the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word so that it conforms to a more familiar one - in this case religious. Etymologically, SACRILEGIOUS has no direct relationship to religious. The historical pronunciation /sak'reuh lee"jeuhs/ occurs in American English, though not in British English, and criticism of the newer pronunciation has almost disappeared. |
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