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adjective

as in deconsecrated

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verb

past tense of desacralize
as in violated
to remove the sacred qualities or status of complained that contemporary society has desacralized and trivialized the celebration of Christmas

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  1. deconsecrated
  2. violated
  3. unconsecrated
  4. desecrated
  5. unhallowed
  6. secular
Adjective
  • The rest hail from all over, and while the city’s cultural pull makes leisure guests the large majority, the huge gardens and event spaces like the Conventino, a deconsecrated 19th century church adjoining Palazzo del Nero, mean that the hotel is a popular venue too for social and corporate events.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Giuditta Brozzetti founded this atelier inside a deconsecrated church in the 1920s in order to help local women earn a living by weaving textiles.
    — Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of deconsecrated
Verb
  • After a federal jury in the District of Columbia ruled in favor of Democracy Partners, O’Keefe and Maass appealed, arguing the damages violated their First Amendment rights to freedom of the press.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Nor could the state provide recidivism or success rate data related to the total number of participants who violated probation, were arrested or who successfully completed the program.
    — Julie Watts August 20, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of violated
Adjective
  • Beyond the number of cillíní and burial sites uncovered, the practices surrounding these unconsecrated grounds reveal a complex emotional landscape marked by grief, shame, and trauma, according to the press release.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Her fiancé killed himself out of grief and was buried nearby on unconsecrated ground.
    — Joe Kloc, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
Definition of unconsecrated
Verb
  • The measure adds new grounds to Argentina’s immigration law, allowing authorities to bar, deport and revoke visas of people found to have promoted hatred against Argentines in spoken or written statements or who have desecrated national symbols.
    — Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
  • Those are the kinds of things that can't be broken into or taken away or desecrated.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
Definition of desecrated
Adjective
  • Repetitive mental work in such unhallowed spaces also punished the mind and the soul.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • Although the film never comes out and says it, Ohm was possibly conceived on these unhallowed grounds, so maybe he was just born cursed.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
Definition of unhallowed
Adjective
  • Campbell explained that Democrats have a larger number of secular voters -- people who are not religious, which is a growing segment of the population and within the Democratic Party.
    — Hannah Demissie, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The stock remains above the rising monthly cloud model, which defines the secular bull trend.
    — Katie Stockton, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of secular
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“Desacralized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/desacralized. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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