unsacred

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ sacred.

Adjective

unsacred (not comparable)

  1. Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
    • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 148:
      It is supposed to be made unsacred. The priest comes and says some words.
    • 2009 January 11, Holland Cotter, “Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts”, in New York Times:
      Several of our veteran museums are doing by undoing: loosening up the rigid values and temple-of-art models that shaped them, and replacing these with a new "people's museum" model, unsacred in atmosphere, fluid in values, with complicated answers to the question of what museums are.

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