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  • adjective Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible

Etymologies

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un- +‎ sacred

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Examples

  •  A meaningless, unsacred place will only define the shoe as just another shoe.

    The Other Shoe 2010

  •  A meaningless, unsacred place will only define the shoe as just another shoe.

    The Other Shoe 2010

  • Kaukab, by contrast, is fearful and suspicious, so “trapped within the cage of permitted thinking” [p. 113] that she once withheld milk from her baby during Ramadan and wears special clothing whenever she leaves her neighborhood for fear of being contaminated by contact with this “unsacred country full of people filthy with disgusting habits and practices” [p. 273].

    Maps For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam: Questions 2005

  • Delighted news crews filmed the chaos while Ripperoons and assorted lunatics gave interviews to straight-faced camera operators about how Lord Jack was going to appear through an unstable gate created by a passing meteor and step off into the open Britannia amidst a host of unheavenly demons charged with guarding his most unsacred person from all earthly harm ...

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • And then his brethren would please him and brought to him a simple host unsacred in manner of the body of our Lord, and he knew it well in spirit, and said: God forgive you, brethren, wherefore would ye deceive me?

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • I regard marriage as sacred, and when, which God forbid, it proves unsacred, it is horrible to think of these formalities.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • I regard marriage as sacred, and when, which God forbid, it proves unsacred, it is horrible to think of these formalities.

    The Country House John Galsworthy 1900

  • That very unsacred majesty has another favourite, a certain Count von

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • After the fall of the Roman empire the church used the pantomime for the portrayal of sacred history, and later centuries enjoyed very unsacred histories in the pantomimes of their ballets.

    The Photoplay A Psychological Study Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

  • Yet she was a good girl, not wilfully undevout; and if during the long missionary-sermon she secretly got her prayer-book and read -- what was the most likely portion to attract her -- the marriage service, it was with feelings solemnised and not unsacred.

    Agatha's Husband A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

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