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profanation

noun as in sacrilege

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Police officers were sent to the Protestant Cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to investigate the profanation.

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

It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in connection with such a monster, so asked him point-blank:—

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco urged Catholics after the vote to “remember the eucharistic martyrs who died to protect the Most Blessed Sacrament from profanation.”

“The position of the Catholic Church on the right to life is unchanged; obscenities, violence and disrupting services as well as profanation are not the right method of action,” Gadecki said in a statement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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