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  • adjective Not desecrated.

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un- +‎ desecrated

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Examples

  • But both sides want the forest to exist pristine and undesecrated by greedy behavior by anybody else.

    Eben on Software Ecology glyn moody 2007

  • The old bookshelves remained untouched; the old books, in their musty brown calf bindings, were undesecrated by profaning hands.

    Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

  • Below them the snow lay untrodden, exquisitely pure, piled here in great drifts, falling away there in wonderful curves and hollows, but always showing a surface perfect and undesecrated by any human touch.

    Greatheart 1910

  • But this little chapel had seemed to her to be all the more sacred because it had been undesecrated and forgotten.

    The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • It was early on a beautiful summer morning, and we were again passing through a tract of undesolated, undesecrated country -- greenness, quiet, the song of birds, the scent of flowers, all about us.

    Four years under Marse Robert, 1904

  • Go into his temple in Western China, and you will find this deity dripping with plasters, with scarcely an undesecrated space on his superficies.

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

  • Western China, and you will find this deity dripping with plasters, with scarcely an undesecrated space on his superficies.

    An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

  • Within our own memory, many such places, sanctified to barrenness by some favourite popular superstition, existed, both in Wales and Ireland, as well as in Scotland; but the high price of agricultural produce during the late war renders it doubtful if a veneration for greybearded superstition has suffered any one of them to remain undesecrated.

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • One undesecrated, unrifled headland remains above the factories, on which is a venerable but abandoned church.

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

  • Margate but the chine of a little trickling streamlet that tumbled seaward over the undesecrated sands; when a broad arm of the sea still cut off Westgate from the Reculver cliffs, and when the tide swept unopposed four times a day over the submerged sands of Minster Level.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

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