All 3 Uses of
desecrate
in
The Chosen
- I was an apikoros to Danny Saunders, despite my belief in God and Torah, because I did not have side curls and was attending a parochial school where too many English subjects were offered and where Jewish subjects were taught in Hebrew instead of Yiddish, both unheard-of sins, the former because it took time away from the study of Torah, the latter because Hebrew was the Holy Tongue and to use it in ordinary classroom discourse was a desecration of God's Name.†
Chpt 1.1
- A Jewish homeland created by Jewish goyim was to be considered contaminated and an open desecration of the name of God.†
Chpt 3.14
- The leaflets denounced the United Nations vote, ordered Jews to ignore it, called the state a desecration of the name of God,
Chpt 3.14 *desecration = violation of the sacred character
Definition:
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(desecrate) violate the sacred nature of something