(n.) The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things\; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses.

abomination abuse atrocity befouling befoulment blasphemousness blasphemy contamination crime debasement defilement desecration disgrace dishonoring disrespect fouling heresy ignominy impiety impiousness infamy irreverence maltreatment misuse offense outrage perversion pity profanation profaneness profanity prostitution sacrilegiousness scandal secularization shame sin terrible thing violation vitiation