desecrated
adj1
Having been desecrated or violated.
- And the Apostle tells us it will be so; that all things wait for this, when the earth will be restored, all creation's deserts rejoice and blossom as the rose; when its most desecrated spots will be consecrated, its most barren spots fertilised, and the Paradise that shall end the world be more glorious, beautiful, and fair, than the Paradise with which the world began.1855, John Cumming, Signs of the Times: Or, Present, Past, and Future, page 206:
- But was the place more desecrated by such a beneficial employment of it than by being shut up empty in dark and cold ?1868, Newman Hall, Sermons, page 29:
2 more examples
- It was not just the French who felt desecrated, but also the Allies.2019, Sheldon Winkler, The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories, page 36:
- As theologian Shawn Copeland argues, "No Christian teaching has been more desecrated by slavery than the doctrine of the human person or theological anthropology."2024, Julie Hanlon Rubio, Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist?, page 127:
- Derived terms
- undesecrated