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means An act that violates or shows gross disrespect for something considered sacred or deeply revered.

from From Latin sacrilegium, built from sacer ('sacred') and legere ('to gather, steal') — the same legere that gives us 'collect.' A sacrilegus was literally one who stole sacred things, a temple-robber making off with holy objects. The word widened over time from the physical crime of looting shrines to any act — word, gesture, carelessness — that treats the sacred as if it were ordinary plunder.