sacrilege

• sacriledge (obsolete)

Circa 1300, original sense “stealing something sacred”. From Middle English sacrilege, from Old French sacrilege, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”), from phrase sacrum legere, from sacrum (from sacer (“sacred, holy”)) + legō (“gather; take, steal”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- and *leǵ-. Sense of “profanation” from late 14th century.[1]

Unrelated to religion, which is ultimately from ligō (“I tie, bind, or bandage”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ- (“to bind”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹɪlɪd͡ʒ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsækɹəlɪd͡ʒ/

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• Hyphenation: sac‧ri‧lege

sacrilege (usually uncountable, plural sacrileges)

1. Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred.
   • 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, pages 703-704:

     I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.

• sacrilegious

• Gilcrease

From sacrilegus (“sacrilegious”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

sacrilegē (not comparable)

1. sacrilegiously, impiously

• (impiously): irreligiōsē, nefāriē

• “sacrilege”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sacrilege”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎

First attested at the end of the 12th century, borrowed from Latin sacrilegium.[1]

sacrilege oblique singular, m (oblique plural sacrileges, nominative singular sacrileges, nominative plural sacrilege)

1. sacrilege

• English: sacrilege
• French: sacrilège

sacrilege m or f or n (masculine plural sacrilegi, feminine and neuter plural sacrilege)

1. Obsolete form of sacrileg.

• sacrilege in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN