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Definition of Desecrater
1. n. One who desecrates; a profaner.
Definition of Desecrater
1. Noun. One who desecrates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Desecrater
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desecrater
Literary usage of Desecrater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans by Max Radin (1916)
"Indeed it was as a wanton desecrater of shrines that Antiochus gained an unenviable
notoriety. His pillaging of the temple at Jerusalem was only one of a ..."
2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1900)
"... those who drove churchward, and only fished in woods and swamps or bush- hid
ponds, he nevertheless was considered as a desecrater of that sacred day. ..."
3. The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1915)
"They would again send fifty men out into the valley to find and capture this
desecrater of their temple. After Tarzan reached the shaft beyond the broken ..."
4. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1875)
"The Pagans regarded him as a persecutor of their opinions, a desecrater of their
temples ; he had burnt the books of the Sibyls. ..."
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