Both Uses of
desecrate
in
A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
- If anybody desecrates the temple of God, God will bring him to ruin and if you laugh, He may strike you thisaway.†
Story 5. *desecrates = violates the sacred nature of something
- By nightfall, the Displaced Person would have worked his way around and around until there would be nothing on either side of the two hills but the stubble, and down in the center, risen like a little island, the graveyard where the Judge lay grinning under his desecrated monument.†
Story 10.desecrated = violated the sacred nature of something
Definition:
violate the sacred nature of something