Other forms: desecrations
Desecration is the violent disrespecting of something sacred. The desecration of a grave, desecration of the temple, acts of desecration.
It is used of graves, churches and memorials, and the word carries the sense that the damage is to meaning rather than to property. Some countries make desecration a separate offence from ordinary criminal damage for exactly that reason.
1noundesecrationThe violent disrespecting of something sacred.
“The desecration of graves in the old cemetery shocked the whole town.”
desecration is a damaging.
Desecrate is de-, an undoing, plus consecrate, from Latin sacer, sacred.
Ancient Greek
εἶμι
English
ion
English, today
desecration
Built from
From desecrate + ion. ion comes from Ancient Greek εἶμι. From the ending of anion and cation, which in turn is from Ancient Greek ἰόν (“going”), neuter present participle of εἶμι (“I go”). coined by William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.
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