Both Uses of
desecrate
in
Middlemarch
- All this was impudence and desecration, and he repented that he had brought her.†
Chpt 2 *desecration = the act of violating the sacred nature of something
- To his secret feeling there was something repulsive in a woman's second marriage, and no match would prevent him from feeling it a sort of desecration for Dorothea.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
violate the sacred nature of something