Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is guilty of sacrilege.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One guilty of sacrilege.

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  • noun One who is guilty of sacrilege.

Etymologies

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sacrilege +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • There be good reasons why every thern upon Barsoom should yearn to spill the blood of the blasphemer, the sacrilegist; but let us mix wisdom with our righteous hate.

    The Warlord of Mars 1913

  • There be good reasons why every thern upon Barsoom should yearn to spill the blood of the blasphemer, the sacrilegist; but let us mix wisdom with our righteous hate.

    Warlord of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • French that he was a manslayer and a sacrilegist, who murdered tiny babes and stabbed sacred hosts.

    The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

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