desecrate
verb (used with object)
to divest of sacred or hallowed character or office.
undesecrated
-
a word derived from
desecrate.
Example Sentences
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In Wales also, and even in the Isle of Wight, there are perfect bowers of bliss of this description, still undesecrated by the excursionist.
From Some Private Views by James Payn
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
Nature, whenever undesecrated by the vulgarity of man, is ever sublimely simple.
From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Mrs. George Horrocks
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
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
