Sacriledge

Sacriledge, in the straightnesse of your Lordship's leisure, to present a peece, for matter and model so unworthy, and in this scribbling age, wherein great persons are so pestered dayly with

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

I have been at several of the Indian Towns, and conversed with some of the most sensible of them in that Country; but I cou'd learn little from them, it being reckon'd Sacriledge, to divulge the principles of their Religion.

The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722

And therefore in the name of God, I here charge such belief as guilty of Sacriledge in the highest Nature, and so much worse than stealing Church Plate, etc.,

"More Wonders of the Invisible World," by Robert Calef, 1700 ; from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 1693

"That me does for your good inspire)" 'Twere Sacriledge a Mant t'admit

Miscellaneous Poems 1681

75T, 6. 3. to the femepu* - Waio Meffci.p. * i«, wife rn into the Order of Brejby - ters, is Sacriledge.

The Reasonableness of a Toleration: Enquir'd Into, Purely on Church ... 1705