| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| sacrilegious |
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| SYLLABICATION: | sac·ri·le·gious |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s k r -l j s, -l js |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Grossly irreverent toward what is or is held to be sacred. 2. Having committed sacrilege. | | OTHER FORMS: | sacri·legious·ly —ADVERB
sacri·legious·ness —NOUN
| | USAGE NOTE: | Sacrilegious, the adjective form of sacrilege, is often misspelled through confusion with religious.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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