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Webster 1828 Edition
Sacrilegiously
SACRILE'GIOUSLY
,adv.
Definition 2024
sacrilegiously
sacrilegiously
English
Adverb
sacrilegiously (comparative more sacrilegiously, superlative most sacrilegiously)
- In a sacrilegious manner; done without proper respect.
- 1970, Stendhal, Translated by Richard N. Coe, New York: Orion Press, Chapter XXII, p. 286,
- Every Friday, in fact, the priests send out spies into the back-gardens of all the palazzi to hunt for chicken-bones on the rubbish-heaps; the chamber-maid cannot receive absolution at her Easter confession unless she denounces secret carcass-hoards of sacrilegiously-consumed fowls […]
- 1970, Stendhal, Translated by Richard N. Coe, New York: Orion Press, Chapter XXII, p. 286,
Translations
in a sacrilegious manner
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