unconsecrated
Example Sentences
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"Information regarding the respectful treatment of human remains in unconsecrated grounds can be found on the Government website."
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022
He learned, only recently, that he had a half sister who died at the home in 1950s and that her remains, presumably, are commingled in the site’s unconsecrated ground.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2018
And yet there is something narrow, and basically anachronistic, about this view of “the comments” as a phenomenon restricted to the unconsecrated ground below the line.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 17, 2015
The unconsecrated cemetery’s rusty gates are festooned with colourful feathers, trinkets and ribbons.
From Economist ● Jun. 19, 2014
In these days of amateur preaching in theatres and other unconsecrated buildings, I feel I owe no apology to my clerical brethren for taking their congregations in hand after they have quite done with them.
From Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Oliphant, Laurence
