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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
deconsecrate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective divested of consecration
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Examples
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Cape May Stage, one of two professional theater companies located in an island resort town at the southern end of the Jersey Shore, presents six shows each season in a deconsecrated Presbyterian church that has been turned into a most attractive small theater.
Where All the World's a Stage Terry Teachout 2011
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You can view it this weekend as a giant illuminated billboard housed in a deconsecrated church.
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Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.
Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010
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Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.
Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010
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She says that she hopes to use the deconsecrated church to showcase her textile business.
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Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS.
Teutonic Temptations Ian Brunskill 2010
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All these spaces had been deconsecrated so that vampires and others of their ilk could use them, but Camille could never come any farther into the Institute than that.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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That may be, but why nail a popular symbol of Darwin-inspired ultra-atheism to the foremost icon of Christianity and install the finished product in a deconsecrated Church?
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"Reading the deconsecrated text would be to understand that, in loving it, we turn the pages leaving behind us bloody fingerprints, the blood of murdered Jews seeping into the lines that make up our individual fingerprints … The pages are stained with blood."
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That may be, but why nail a popular symbol of Darwin-inspired ultra-atheism to the foremost icon of Christianity and install the finished product in a deconsecrated Church?
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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