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sacrilege
 
SYLLABICATION:sac·ri·lege
PRONUNCIATION:  skr-lj
NOUN: Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus, one who steals sacred things : sacer, sacred; see sacred + legere, to gather; see leg- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:sacri·legist (skr-ljst) —NOUN
 
 
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