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Meaning of "was desecrated"
When something is described as being 'desecrated', it means that it was willfully damaged or treated with disrespect, especially in a religious or sacred context. Desecration often involves actions that defile or ruin the sanctity and purity of a place, object, or symbol
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Its very site was desecrated by unholy feet.
A rumour spread that the mosque was desecrated.
The church was desecrated and left in ruins.
You said the coffin was desecrated.
The cemetery was desecrated and the gravestones were demolished.
Sacrifice was ceased because the temple was desecrated.
His body was desecrated and thrown down a well.
This cemetery was desecrated.
Many people died or became refugees and cultural heritage was desecrated.
The very building itself was desecrated and broken up.
The collegiate church was not spared and the royal family tomb was desecrated.
The pipe was desecrated.
The church was also mined and the graveyard was desecrated.
That was desecrated by the Greeks with blood.
The synagogue was desecrated.
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His shrine was desecrated by the Vikings when the church was destroyed.
Evil is done The sacrifice was desecrated.
The temple was desecrated during the Napoleonic wars and was used as a stable.
In the French Revolution the cathedral was desecrated and used as a storage depot.
Her grave was desecrated during the French Revolution but her tomb was later restored.
The abandoned Catholic church was desecrated and sold to an individual.
During the siege the cemetery of the Church of St Guthlac was desecrated.
The temple at Shiloh was desecrated and the priesthood was corrupt and immoral.
Just this past weekend a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Nice.
During the French revolution it was desecrated and much of her religious imagery was destroyed.
It was desecrated during the French Revolution when imagery and statues were destroyed.
She arrived shortly after the Cathedral was desecrated while most everyone else was fleeing.
His tomb was desecrated during the French Revolution and his relics are lost.
The body of an American Marine was desecrated on our own soil.
The chapel was desecrated and secularised during the Reformation in Zürich.
During the Nazi occupation the Synagogue was desecrated.
His tomb was desecrated by Julian the Apostate.
Ninety thousand Christians were massacred and the Holy Sepulcher was desecrated.
These authors add that the shrine was desecrated under Julian the Apostate c.
The synagogue as well as the Torah-scrolls were destroyed, and the cemetery was desecrated.
The Radom Synagogue was desecrated by the Nazis and its furnishings destroyed.
On the night of its dedication, the monument was desecrated with swastikas.
His body was desecrated by the Huguenots, burned and the ashes scattered in the Loire.
During the French Revolution the church was desecrated and became a Temple of Reason.
Soon after, several Holocaust memorials were defaced or vandalised and a Jewish cemetery was desecrated.
Two years ago, a grave was desecrated in a cemetery in my district.
During the looting, a statue of the Virgin Mary was desecrated.
Over the years, the synagogue was desecrated a number of times by antisemites.
The attacks began when his tomb ( the Black Mausoleum ) was desecrated.
Over time Matilda 's tomb was desecrated and her original coffin destroyed.
South Africa - Jewish cemetery was desecrated.
At his funeral, his grave was desecrated by Israeli artist Meir Mendelssohn.
On 20 November 2011 the monument commemorating the Holocaust in the city was desecrated by unknown people.
In Bloléquin, the mosque was desecrated by Guéré militias and Liberian mercenaries.
Two years ago, a grave was desecrated.
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