Noun:

देवत्व को लूटने का काम, तोड़ना-मरोड़ना, अपवित्रीकरण,

sacrilege's Usage Examples:

The subject matter of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in Russia during the whole patriarchal period included matrimonial and testamentary causes, inheritance and sacrilege, and many questions concerning the Church domains and Church property, as well as spiritual offences of clergy and laity (ib.).

In the Theodosian Code the various crimes which are accounted sacrilege include - apostasy, heresy, schism, Judaism, paganism, attempts against the immunity of churches and clergy or privileges of church courts, the desecration of sacraments, 'c. and even Sunday.

In 105, Caepio suffered a crushing defeat from the Cimbri at Arausio (Orange) on the Rhone, which was looked upon as a punishment for his sacrilege; hence the proverb Aurum Tolosanum habet, of an act involving disastrous consequences.

He revoked numerous pensions and grants conferred by his predecessors upon idle courtiers, and, meeting the reproach of sacrilege made by the patriarch of Constantinople by a decree of exile, resumed a proportion of the revenues of the wealthy monasteries.

In other words the governors were ordered merely to punish sacrilege, and, under Aurelius, Christianity was regarded as such.

Old age was held in high honour, but it was sacrilege to speak, or even to think, of the dead.

Peter permanently transferred to the secular forum the testamentary jurisdiction and that concerning inheritance, as also questions of " sacrilege " (ib.

Indeed the country people would look on the destruction of the high places with their Asheras and Mazzebas as sacrilege and would consider Josiah's death in battle as a divine punishment for his sacrilegious deeds.

To tamper with a constitution that had so proved its quality seemed not so much a sacrilege as a folly.

But wherever the idea of sacred exists, sacrilege is possible..

Synonyms:

blasphemy, violation, irreverence, desecration, profanation,

Antonyms:

reverence,