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
This discovery convinced them that there was a fraud, and that appearances that vanished at the approach of unconsecrated light must be produced by mere human artifice.
From Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed by Joseph Taylor
