sacrilegeEnglishOxford English Thesaurussacrilege noun the sacrilege of committing a murder on holy ground: desecration, profanity, profaneness, profanation, blasphemy, impiety, impiousness, sin, irreverence, irreligion, irreligiousness, godlessness, unholiness, disrespect. ▷antonyms piety, respectfulness.sacrilege Oxford Dictionary of English