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# sacrilege

«sacrilege» in Mova's school dictionary: **Great disrespect shown to something holy, such as a god…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (sacrileges)

### meaning for a pupil

Great disrespect shown to something holy, such as a god, a temple or a church. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilege/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

stealing from a temple or harming a holy place is sacrilege

### examples

- Stealing the gold from the temple was sacrilege. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilege/#x1)
- Apollo saw the sacrilege and came down to defend his shrine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilege/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sacrilege» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sacrilege/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.