[U,sing.] an act of treating a holy thing or place without respect: (figurative) It would be sacrilege to alter the composer's original markings. * The cult of the Roman emperor was sacrilege to Jews and Christians.
sacrilegious adjective:
Leading clerics condemned the book as a sacrilegious attack on their faith.
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