Definition of "deconsecrated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of deconsecrate. (verb)

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• "Cape May Stage, one of two professional theater companies located in an island resort town at the southern end of the Jersey Shore, presents six shows each season in a deconsecrated Presbyterian church that has been turned into a most attractive small theater."
• "You can view it this weekend as a giant illuminated billboard housed in a deconsecrated church."
• "Visiting the abbey church in the Harz mountain town of Quedlinburg, he notes that it was deconsecrated in the 1930s by Heinrich Himmler and turned into a shrine to the SS."