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Definition of Deconsecration
1. Noun. The opposite of consecration, to undo consecration. Desecration or defilement. ¹
2. Noun. A ritual observing the removal from service of a sacred place, like the closing of a church. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deconsecration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deconsecration
Literary usage of Deconsecration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Siena, the Story of a Mediaeval Commune by Ferdinand Schevill (1909)
"With the withdrawal of the priest and his flock a formal deconsecration was
required by the regulations of the Catholic church, in sign that the great abbey ..."
2. Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant by Episcopal Church (1888)
"At the close of the service, at the request of the vestry, pronounced the
deconsecration of the church. 3:30 PM, in St. Paul's Church, New Albany, ..."
3. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain by John Ruskin (1887)
"... ib.; palaces, 63, 92; at the deconsecration of All Hallows' to say, as it
were, the Lord's Prayer backward, 72, 388; the, their wives and daughters, 77, ..."
4. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... the City churches removed under the Bishop of London's Act. The last, a special
service of deconsecration, was performed in it on February i, 1867. ..."
5. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"This convenient formula was accepted as an adequate prayer of deconsecration;
the church was pulled down and the fountain was made; ..."
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