desecrativeadj.
/ˈdɛsɪkreɪtɪv/ Calculated or tending to desecrate or deprive of sacred character.
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society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adjective] > committing sacrilege or sacrilegious
sacrileging?1554
sacrilegious1582
unsacred1608
desecrating1675
profanatory1815
desecrativea1861
a1861 E. B. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) I. ii. 18 [Is] the union between tragedy and the gas-lights..less desecrative of the Divine theory?
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. iv. 99 Merchants' Bills were a sacred thing, in spite of Bamberg and desecrative individualities.
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