Meanings
adjectiveunsacred (not comparable)
- not comparableNot sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
It is supposed to be made unsacred. The priest comes and says some words.
1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 1481 more example
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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishsacred
- Englishunsacred
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APA
unsacred. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsacred
MLA
“unsacred.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsacred. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
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