0 the act of using a holy thing or place in a wicked way -- pencabulan
Robbing a church is considered (a) sacrilege.
The idea of somebody getting a crane and hoiking them out of the water, and leaving them on the canalside or towing them away, is sacrilege.
I recognise that for some people such a proposition amounts to little more than sacrilege.
Traditionalists may snort that it would be sacrilege to tamper with the status quo, and some have already this evening.
I cannot repeat it; it would be sacrilege to spoil it.
We do not depend upon this kind of sacrilege to produce the pilots of the future.
Were its members sent home before the sacrilege took place in the chapel?
I remember protesting against it at the time—not, however, on the grounds of sacrilege.
On that ground who would say that what is here proposed is sacrilege in any true and proper sense of the term?
