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

“It would be a different Church if I were running it,” declares Sister St. Saviour on her way home from Jim’s burial in unconsecrated ground.

From Washington Times

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

From BBC

A police affidavit says some unconsecrated Eucharists were chewed and scattered on the floor.

From Washington Times

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