deconsecrated

1. 1.

   divested of consecration

   Similardesecrated

Questions about deconsecrated

What does deconsecrated mean?

deconsecrated means "divested of consecration".

How many syllables are in deconsecrated?

deconsecrated has 5 syllables and divides as de-con-se-cra-ted under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is deconsecrated a common word?

deconsecrated is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.