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to remove the sacred qualities or status of
hoping to raise much-needed funds, the church elders deconsecrated the 18th-century silver chalice and consigned it to a high-end auction house
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Recent Examples of deconsecrated
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
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deconsecrated
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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
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Her fiancé killed himself out of grief and was buried nearby on unconsecrated ground.—
Joe Kloc,
New York Times,
28 Feb. 2023
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The move follows arguments from Maduro’s defense team, led by attorney Barry Pollack, that restrictions on payments violated the Sixth Amendment right to counsel by preventing him from choosing his legal representation.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
27 Apr. 2026
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The parents sued the school board and district officials in 2021, alleging that their rights to make decisions about the care and upbringing of their children were violated.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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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
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Javien Wright, the man whose grave was desecrated, was, with a gun by his side, shot to death outside a house in the 1500 block of East Mulkey Street in February 2020.—
Emerson Clarridge,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2026
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More synagogues in Canada in the past 28 months have been desecrated, burned, shot at, or threatened with bombings than in any other country.—
Jesse Brown,
The Atlantic,
24 Mar. 2026
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“Deconsecrated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deconsecrated. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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