0 (an act of) treating something holy or important without respect:
1 the failure to treat something holy with the respect it should have, or an example of this:
The maximum penalty for sacrilege or for setting fire to a place of worship is imprisonment for life.
To touch it or to amend it is akin to an act of sacrilege.
The fact that uninvited people had been in and interfered with the trivial things so dear to us was to her a matter of sacrilege.
I believe there is an instructive parallel from the loss of taboos as regards sacrilege.
They say that it is sacrilege to add anything to whisky as soon as the bottle has been opened.
To them, the phrase "industrial policy" means some sort of sacrilege and an approach to the dreaded consensus.
They cannot contemplate that—it is sacrilege and blasphemy to them.
On that ground who would say that what is here proposed is sacrilege in any true and proper sense of the term?
