desecrate
verb (used with object)
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
undesecrated
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a word derived from
desecrate.
Example Sentences
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One undesecrated, unrifled headland remains above the factories, on which is a venerable but abandoned church.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
But this little chapel had seemed to her to be all the more sacred because it had been undesecrated and forgotten.
From The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford
Still the noble promontory thrusts itself boldly forward into the sea from the heart of an undesecrated wilderness.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Robert (Robert Smythe) Hichens
He was at a pass when he would have given worlds to find one of the sacred places undesecrated.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
He felt more inclined to thank God for so great a preservation, and then pass reverently on, and leave the dead king undesecrated.
From A Simpleton by Charles Reade
