unconsecrated

Example Sentences

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"Information regarding the respectful treatment of human remains in unconsecrated grounds can be found on the Government website."

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2022

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

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

Under this Act the Clergy are empowered to use the Service of the Church for the burial of the dead in any unconsecrated burial ground or cemetery.

From The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous