sacrilegious
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + legō (“steal something sacred”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sæk.ɹəˈlɪdʒ.əs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /sæk.ɹəˈlɪdʒ.əs/, /sæk.ɹəˈlidʒəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪdʒəs, -iːdʒəs
Adjective[edit]
sacrilegious (comparative more sacrilegious, superlative most sacrilegious)
- Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
- 1831, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality, volume 3, page 26:
- At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
committing sacrilege
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