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unsacred

unsacred adjective: not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible.

Adjective

unsacred (not comparable)

  1. Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
    • It is supposed to be made unsacred. The priest comes and says some words.1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 148
    • Several of our veteran museums are doing by undoing: loosening up the rigid values and temple-of-art models that shaped them, and replacing these with a new "people's museum" model, unsacred in atmosphere, fluid in values, with complicated answers to the question of what museums are.2009 January 11, Holland Cotter, “Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts”, in New York Times

Origin of unsacred

From un- + sacred.

Words formed from unsacred

Questions about unsacred

What does unsacred mean?
Unsacred means not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible.
What part of speech is unsacred?
Unsacred is an adjective.

Words near unsacred in the dictionary

  1. unsacking
  2. unsacks
  3. unsacramental
  4. unsacramentally
  5. unsacramentarian
  6. unsacred
  7. unsacredly
  8. unsacredness
  9. unsacrificeable
  10. unsacrificed
  11. unsacrificial

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