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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unsacred en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + sacred.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
    • 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. 2009 January 11, Holland Cotter, “Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts”, in New York Times:
    • It is supposed to be made unsacred. The priest comes and says some words. 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 148:

Deriveds

unsacredness · unsacredly