All 5 Uses of
sacrilege
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- Oh, it would be a sacrilege.†
Chpt 73-74
- "No; for I saw God's justice placed in the hands of Benedetto, and should have thought it sacrilege to oppose the designs of providence."†
Chpt 83-84
- No, Emmanuel, I am but a man, and your admiration is as unmerited as your words are sacrilegious.†
Chpt 111-112
- —can one hour have sufficed to prove to an architect that the work upon which he founded all his hopes was an impossible, if not a sacrilegious, undertaking?†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(sacrilege) disrespect of something others consider important or sacred