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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.”

“In light of plans being announced by organisers for further acts of aggression and profanation, the police will take decisive action. The goal of the police is to ensure public order and safety for all citizens,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

From Reuters

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

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