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In a sacrilegious manner; done without proper respect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1970, Stendhal, Translated by Richard N. Coe, New York: Orion Press, Chapter XXII, p. 286, Every Friday, in fact, the priests send out spies into the back-gardens of all the palazzi to hunt for chicken-bones on the rubbish-heaps; the chamber-maid cannot receive absolution at her Easter confession unless she denounces secret carcass-hoards of sacrilegiously-consumed fowls [...]
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in a sacrilegious manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Etymology tree English sacrilegious Middle English -ly English -ly English sacrilegiously From sacrilegious + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
sacrílegament
— in a sacrilegious manner
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French:
sacrilégement
— in a sacrilegious manner
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Italian:
sacrilegamente
— in a sacrilegious manner
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Portuguese:
sacrilegamente
— in a sacrilegious manner
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Russian:
кощунственно
(koščunstvenno)
— in a sacrilegious manner
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Spanish:
sacrílegamente
— in a sacrilegious manner
