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sacreligious

sacreligious is the misspelling of sacrilegious.

Meaning of sacrilegious

Adjective

sacrilegious (comparative more sacrilegious, superlative most sacrilegious)

  1. Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred.
    • At one end of the room was spread a square carpet, and on it stood a table, on which were placed two most sacrilegious-looking wax-tapers: it is to be feared some poor sinner stayed longer in purgatory from the abduction of his offering.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 26

Questions about sacreligious

What is sacreligious the misspelling of?
Sacreligious is the misspelling of sacrilegious.

Words near sacreligious in the dictionary

  1. sacredizing
  2. sacredly
  3. sacredness
  4. sacrednesses
  5. sacrelige
  6. sacreligious
  7. sacres
  8. sacricostal
  9. sacrific
  10. sacrificable
  11. sacrifical

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