DESACRALIZED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in deconsecrated

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verb

past tense of desacralize

as in violated

to remove the sacred qualities or status of complained that contemporary society has desacralized and trivialized the celebration of Christmas

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Adjective

The rest hail from all over, and while the city’s cultural pull makes leisure guests the large majority, the huge gardens and event spaces like the Conventino, a deconsecrated 19th century church adjoining Palazzo del Nero, mean that the hotel is a popular venue too for social and corporate events.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
Giuditta Brozzetti founded this atelier inside a deconsecrated church in the 1920s in order to help local women earn a living by weaving textiles.

— Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 16 Dec. 2025

Definition of deconsecrated

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The core of the Teamsters’ petition against the DMV is the claim that regulators violated the California Administrative Procedure Act by failing to complete an extensive study of the economic and practical impact of the policy change.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
Meta also lost a separate social-media case brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez, after a court found that the company violated the state's child-safety laws and ordered it to pay over $900 million in penalties.

— Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of violated

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Beyond the number of cillíní and burial sites uncovered, the practices surrounding these unconsecrated grounds reveal a complex emotional landscape marked by grief, shame, and trauma, according to the press release.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 8 Feb. 2026
Her fiancé killed himself out of grief and was buried nearby on unconsecrated ground.

— Joe Kloc, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023

Definition of unconsecrated

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The measure adds new grounds to Argentina’s immigration law, allowing authorities to bar, deport and revoke visas of people found to have promoted hatred against Argentines in spoken or written statements or who have desecrated national symbols.

— Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026
Those are the kinds of things that can't be broken into or taken away or desecrated.

— Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026

Definition of desecrated

Adjective

Repetitive mental work in such unhallowed spaces also punished the mind and the soul.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
Although the film never comes out and says it, Ohm was possibly conceived on these unhallowed grounds, so maybe he was just born cursed.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of unhallowed

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Treasuries were more than a decade into a massive secular bull market as the '90s bubble inflated.

— Michael Santoli, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
Sunita Viswanath, executive director of Hindus for Human Rights, said her group is one of 61 interfaith and secular organizations that signed an open letter protesting Saturday’s event.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of secular

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