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Definition of Deconsecrating
1. deconsecrate [v] - See also: deconsecrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deconsecrating
Literary usage of Deconsecrating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Bibliopolist (1876)
"A limited number of large-paper copies has been " worked off," in order to meet
the requirements of illustrators. A " deconsecrating " Service was held in ..."
2. Southwark and Its Story by Charlotte Gilson Allen Boger, Mrs Edmund Boger, Edmund Boger (1881)
"It could scarcely be what has been rather happily, though satirically, called
an "office for deconsecrating" the church, such as has been ..."
3. Journal of the ... Annual Convention of the Diocese of West Missouri by Episcopal Church, Diocese of West Missouri (1907)
"On Thursday, June 6th, 1912, I had the sad duty of "deconsecrating" or "secularizing"
St. Mark's Church, St. Joseph, the building being in a state of ..."
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