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desecrated

adjective

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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Having been desecrated or violated.

    And the Apostle tells us it will be so; that all things wait for this, when the earth will be restored, all creation's deserts rejoice and blossom as the rose; when its most desecrated spots will be consecrated, its most barren spots fertilised, and the Paradise that shall end the world be more glorious, beautiful, and fair, than the Paradise with which the world began.

    But was the place more desecrated by such a beneficial employment of it than by being shut up empty in dark and cold ?

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of desecrate