Both Uses
desecrate
in
Middlemarch
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- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(desecrate) violate the sacred nature of something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)