Some critics have called the restoration of the Chartres cathedral a "scandalous desecration of a cultural holy place."
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Desecration
/dɛ.sɪˈkɹeɪ.ʃən/
Synonyms for "desecration" (60 found)
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abominationabuseabuse of officeatrocitybefoulmentblasphemousnessblasphemyconversioncorrupt administration
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6 entriesact of desecrationdesecration of artifactsdesecration of religious sitesgrave desecrationreligious desecrationsacred site desecration
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Friendship was a sacred thing in the eyes of this little German, and he was much horrified at this cruel desecration just revealed to him.
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It seemed a desecration and an unhallowed thing to touch that sleeping image of the live man by my side.
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In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
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