unsacred
adjEtymology From un- + sacred.
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Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
- It is supposed to be made unsacred. The priest comes and says some words.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 148:
- Several of our veteran museums are doing by undoing: loosening up the rigid values and temple-of-art models that shaped them, and replacing these with a new "people's museum" model, unsacred in atmosphere, fluid in values, with complicated answers to the question of what museums are.2009 January 11, Holland Cotter, “Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- unsacredly, unsacredness