#wordoftheday
sacrilege
/sakrɪlɪdʒ/
noun
violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred.
“putting ecclesiastical vestments to secular use was considered sacrilege”
synonyms: desecration, profanity, profaneness, profanation, blasphemy, impiety, impiousness, sin, irreverence, irreligion, irreligiousness, godlessness, unholiness, disrespect
“the sacrilege of committing a murder on holy ground”