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Compare sacrilege, Latin sacrilegus. From Latin sacer + legō (steal something sacred).

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sacrilegious (comparative more sacrilegious, superlative most sacrilegious)

  1. Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 26:
      At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.
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