profanation

Example Sentences

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Police officers were sent to the Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to investigate the profanation.

From Seattle Times

“This is a profanation, an imitation of shooting, an imitation of exercises, an imitation of a formation,” Leshkov raged.

From Washington Post

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco urged Catholics after the vote to “remember the eucharistic martyrs who died to protect the Most Blessed Sacrament from profanation.”

From New York Times

“The position of the Catholic Church on the right to life is unchanged; obscenities, violence and disrupting services as well as profanation are not the right method of action,” Gadecki said in a statement.

From Seattle Times

Nobody pretends the volunteers will prevent the next “profanation,” as these recurring episodes are referred to by locals.

From New York Times