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desecration

noun as in violation, abuse

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The attack on a Manchester synagogue which killed two people was a "desecration" that has "changed us all forever", its leaders have said.

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If you see someone as a martyr, then opposition to their movement is not merely disagreement, it is desecration.

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The justices backed up that ruling a short time later, invalidating a federal law banning desecration of the flag that was passed in Johnson’s wake.

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She said she wanted to "unleash the spirit of Lincolnshire" against "the planned desecration of our countryside".

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"That original taking was illicit, was unethical, was a form of desecration," he told BBC News NI.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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