DESECRATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does desecrated mean? 

• DESECRATED (adjective)
  The adjective DESECRATED has 1 sense:

1. treated with disrespect and contempt

  Familiarity information: DESECRATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESECRATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated with disrespect and contempt

Context example:

many desecrated shrines and cemeteries

Similar:

deconsecrated (divested of consecration)

profaned; violated (treated irreverently or sacrilegiously)

Antonym:

consecrated (solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high or sacred purpose)

 Context examples 

In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt the truth of these words; and I drew from them the certain inference, that if I were so far to forget myself and all the teaching that had ever been instilled into me, as—under any pretext—with any justification—through any temptation—to become the successor of these poor girls, he would one day regard me with the same feeling which now in his mind desecrated their memory.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)