Sacrilege

Noun

 * 1) desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred

Thesaurus
abomination, abuse, atrocity, befouling, befoulment, blasphemousness, blasphemy, contamination, crime, debasement, defilement, desecration, disgrace, dishonoring, disrespect, fouling, heresy, ignominy, impiety, impiousness, infamy, irreverence, maltreatment, misuse, offense, outrage, perversion, pity, profanation, profaneness, profanity, prostitution, sacrilegiousness, scandal, secularization, shame, sin, terrible thing, violation, vitiation

Translations

 * Arabic: تدنيس, ترجيس
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: svatokrádež
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sakrilegio
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: szentségtörés
 * Ido: sakrilejo
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 冒涜
 * Latin:
 * Polish: świętokradztwo, profanacja
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, святотатство
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:

Adverb

 * 1) sacrilegiously, impiously

Synonyms

 * irreligiōsē, nefāriē

Related terms

 * sacer
 * sacerdōs
 * sacerdōtālis
 * sacerdōtium
 * sacerdōtula
 * sacrāmentālis
 * sacrāmentum


 * sacrārium
 * sacrārius
 * sacrātē
 * sacrātiō
 * sacrātor
 * sacricola
 * sacrifer


 * sacrificālis
 * sacrificātiō
 * sacrificātor
 * sacrificātus
 * sacrificiolus
 * sacrificium
 * sacrificō


 * sacrificulus
 * sacrificus
 * sacrilegium
 * sacrilegus
 * sacrō
 * sacrōsanctus
 * sacrum

Etymology
From sacrilegus:, from sacer: + lego:.