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An act of treating something regarded as sacred with disrespect or desecration.
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- profanation of a shrine
- an act of profanation
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The overturned altar was evidence of deliberate profanation.
They regarded the opening of the tomb as a profanation.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Singular profanation; plural profanations. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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