Synonyms:
profanation
Meaning: degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening
Synonyms:
profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege
Meaning: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"
Usage examples
The clasp of his arms around her seemed suddenly a profanation, and he laid her down very gently on the low couch, drawing the thin coverlet over her, and went back slowly to the other room.
Is it not the worst of sacrilege, a foul profanation of our human nature, which for us, at least, should be holy and awful, when the heroic and saintly martyrdom of a true Man is thus falsified into the self-schemed sham sacrifice, ineffectual, of a God?
There were certain dastardly deeds, certain acts of profanation, certain lies, at which those hordes that came to us from Asia hesitated; an instinctive reverence still restrained them; and, moreover, in those times they did not destroy with such impudent cynicism, invoking the God of Christians in a burlesque pathos of prayer!