profanation
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Police officers were sent to the Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to investigate the profanation.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Kennedy added: “I don’t know if he thought it was a profanation of the code or of the game.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2017
Since its founding in the mid-1970s, the Wooster Group has been performing acts of blessed profanation on sacred texts, including Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” and Racine’s “Phèdre.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2015
It's a similar story with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne's tale of children and death camps which was described by one leading rabbi as "not just a lie … but a profanation".
From The Guardian ● Aug. 13, 2010
“I suppose it would be profanation to eat anything in this spick-and-span bower, so as I’m tremendously hungry, I propose an adjournment,” he added presently.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing profanation
Twelfth Night
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"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray," Vocabulary from Chapters 5-8
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