Word Meanings - DESECRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.

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• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• DESECRATOR
  One who desecrates. "Desecrators of the church." Morley.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• DESECRATION
  The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
• CONDITIONATE
  Conditional. Barak's answer is faithful, though conditionate. Bp. Hall.
• CONDITION
  A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of
• CONDITIONLY
  Conditionally.
• PROFANATION
  1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation
• DESECRATE
  To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate. The clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously
• CONDITIONALLY
  In a conditional manner; subject to a condition or conditions; not absolutely or positively. Shak.
• DESECRATER
  One who desecrates; a profaner. Harper's Mag.
• CONDITIONED
  1. Surrounded; circumstanced; in a certain state or condition, as of property or health; as, a well conditioned man. The best conditioned and unwearied spirit. Shak. 2. Having, or known under or by, conditions or relations; not independent; not
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• INCONDITIONAL
  Unconditional. Sir T. Browne.
• UNCONDITIONAL
  Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender. O, pass not, Lord, an absolute decree, Or bind thy sentence unconditional. Dryden. -- Un`con*di"tion*al*ly, adv.
• UNCONDITIONED
  Not subject to condition or limitations; infinite; absolute; hence, inconceivable; incogitable. Sir W. Hamilton. The unconditioned , all that which is inconceivable and beyond the realm of reason; whatever is inconceivable under logical forms or
• PRECONDITION
  A previous or antecedent condition; a preliminary condition.
• INCONDITIONATE
  Not conditioned; not limited; absolute. Boyle.