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 • Jan. 4, 2023

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2022

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