sacrilegiously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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 […]"

Etymology tree English sacrilegious Middle English -ly English -ly English sacrilegiously From sacrilegious + -ly.

more sacrilegiously (comparative) most sacrilegiously (superlative)

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What does sacrilegiously mean?

In a sacrilegious manner; done without proper respect.

Where does sacrilegiously come from?

Etymology tree English sacrilegious Middle English -ly English -ly English sacrilegiously From sacrilegious + -ly.

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