| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sacrilege |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sac·ri·lege |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k r -l j |
| NOUN: | Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus, one who steals sacred things : sacer, sacred; see sacred + legere, to gather; see leg- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | sac ri·legist (skr-l jst) —NOUN
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