profanation

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“The position of the Catholic Church on the right to life is unchanged; obscenities, violence and disrupting services as well as profanation are not the right method of action,” Gadecki said in a statement.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 25, 2020

Kennedy added: “I don’t know if he thought it was a profanation of the code or of the game.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2017

Since its founding in the mid-1970s, the Wooster Group has been performing acts of blessed profanation on sacred texts, including Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,” Eugene O’Neill’s “The Emperor Jones” and Racine’s “Phèdre.”

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2015

It's a similar story with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne's tale of children and death camps which was described by one leading rabbi as "not just a lie … but a profanation".

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2010

“I suppose it would be profanation to eat anything in this spick-and-span bower, so as I’m tremendously hungry, I propose an adjournment,” he added presently.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott