profanation

Example Sentences

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“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 • Oct. 25, 2020

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

So the point of Cattelan’s facility is not its profanation of the art museum with base human functions.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2016

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

Like Holmes, Geological Survey geologist W J. McGee believed it was his duty to protect the temple of Science from profanation by incompetent and overimaginative amateurs.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann