deconsecrate

And after the events of May 7, 2008, the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Jumblatt, began to turn towards detente and then alliance with Hezbollah, after the Druze leader had led the battle to "deconsecrate" this party, its Secretary-General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah and its authority of reference in Iran.

The Malacca Islamic Religious Council, for example, launched a campaign to deconsecrate Muslim keramat tombs and shrines on Pulau Besar, Malacca on All Souls Day, 2 November 1983, on the grounds that the act of worshipping at the tombs was against the teachings of Islam.

When rumours emerge of his plans to deconsecrate the burial ground and turn it into a car park, a body appears by the bridge.

Are they to be frozen assets - in a World Heritage city we are surely expected to conserve these piles - or do we offer a more financially viable solution to deconsecrate and convert, or to bulldoze and redevelop?

Sorrow and lamentation are the chords many of these poems strike: "The fallen church deconsecrates / forgotten ritual with a broken cross" (Street); "the syllables / Curtailed, half heard, like tongueless bells / From empty steeples endlessly" (Thwaite, "Eccles").