commit sacrilege

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Do they understand what it is to commit sacrilege?

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828 by Various

Consequently, our feelings—" "Enough, Balthazar! you terrify me; you commit sacrilege.

From The Alkahest by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

And with a trembling hand, as if about to commit sacrilege, she opened the case, and drew from it a ruby of great brilliancy and beauty.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

"You shall not touch the dead," she cried; "kill me but do not commit sacrilege."

From A Noble Woman by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

There are other ways besides the unworthy reception of the Sacraments in which a person may commit sacrilege.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.