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Перевод: desecration

[существительное]
осквернение; профанация

Тезаурус:

1. A campaign to prevent the desecration of the holy mountain was inevitably going to receive support from the Catholic Church.
2. It is too soon to be sure that any such desecration has been avoided, but the excellent scheme by Allies and Morrison which has now been adopted is already on course for completion by the arrival of the Tall Ships in 1992.
3. Is it not a form of self desecration not to cultivate this primeval delight in flowers?
4. In the case of Appalachia, thousands of hectares have been destroyed by strip (open-cast) coal mining, and by the flooding, loss of agricultural land, soil erosion and pollution of fresh water supplies which had resulted from this wholesale desecration and the subsequent failure to attempt proper reclamation.
5. In condemning such acts of desecration, I am of the opinion that the only exception that could be made is in the case of books already seriously incomplete and in bad condition, when the completion of its unhappy disintegration may be forgivable.
6. What a desecration!
7. But the recognition since of the tremendous value of historic buildings of all types, the successful conversion of buildings for new uses and a public determination that history will not repeat itself in terms of the demolition and desecration that was then taking place, have inspired us - and many local amenity societies, preservation trusts, action groups and individuals - to carry on campaigning.
8. He concluded: "The present position at the site is one of desecration - trees and hedgerows uprooted, ditches filled and meadows flooded.
9. Something terrible, horrible was going to occur, a desecration.
10. Mary got stroppy about it and said it was wrong what they were doing, it was a desecration.
11. Opposite, forming part of the choir screen, is a fascinating relief portraying the devastation of the cathedral by the Calvinists in 1620, an act of desecration encouraged by Frederick of Bohemia.
12. In the circumstances, no member of Katherine's funeral cortege was particularly surprised that there was trouble at the graveside, though they were relieved Dr Kavanagh had stayed away, the line from New York to Inniskeen quivering with warnings that opening Patrick's grave would be regarded as desecration.
13. I, the armchair observer, lament the cessation of the old skills and crafts just as I deplore the desecration of the open fields by more and more bypasses, pylons, wires, bungalows, concrete, traffic and litter.