unconsecrated

Example Sentences

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He learned, only recently, that he had a half sister who died at the home in 1950s and that her remains, presumably, are commingled in the site’s unconsecrated ground.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2018

Fifteen of the bodies still remain buried in unconsecrated graves within the prison walls.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2016

And yet there is something narrow, and basically anachronistic, about this view of “the comments” as a phenomenon restricted to the unconsecrated ground below the line.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 17, 2015

The unconsecrated cemetery’s rusty gates are festooned with colourful feathers, trinkets and ribbons.

From Economist • Jun. 19, 2014

When the pope celebrates Mass a special credence table on the Gospel side of the altar is used, and the ceremony of tasting for poison in the unconsecrated elements is still observed.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various