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
Far from sharing the sentiment of the Scots peasant—"a man's a man for a' that"—he looks askance at merit and renown unconsecrated by tradition.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
