desecrators
Those who defile
Desecrators are those who violate or profane something sacred or highly respected.
The term applies to vandals who damage religious sites, monuments, or graves, but extends to anyone who treats revered things with contempt: The desecrators of the cemetery were never caught.
The word carries strong moral condemnation.
Those who corrupt sanctity
- blasphemersThose reviling the divine
- violatorsThose who break rules
- pollutersThose who contaminate surroundings
- corruptersThose who debase others
impious · transgressors · unholy · abomination · defilement · desanctification · profanation · impiety
Those who mar surfaces
- graffitistsIllicit mural makers
- destroyersFast armed naval vessels
- wreckersThose who dismantle structures
- saboteursIntentional disruptors of operations
smashers · ruiners · taggers · destruction · ruination · demolishers · ravagers · hoodlums
Those who ransack
- lootersThose who steal during chaos
- plunderersThose who steal violently
- maraudersRoving plunderers
- conquerorsThose who defeat and dominate
invaders · occupiers · ransackers · spoilers · sacking · razing · conquest
Process of improving institutions
- puritanismRigid moral severity
- frescoesPaintings on fresh plaster
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
Those who unearth buried remains
- body-snatchersThieves of the deceased
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
- sepulcherChamber for the dead
burial · coffin · remains · bones · excavation · plundering · necropolis · catacombs
defilers
Those who corrupt sanctity
- blasphemersThose reviling the divine
- violatorsThose who break rules
- pollutersThose who contaminate surroundings
corrupters · impious · transgressors · unholy · abomination · defilement · desanctification · profanation · impiety · irreverence
defacers
Those who mar surfaces
- graffitistsIllicit mural makers
- destroyersFast armed naval vessels
- wreckersThose who dismantle structures
saboteurs · smashers · ruiners · taggers · destruction · ruination · demolishers · ravagers · hoodlums · delinquents
pillagers
Those who ransack
- lootersThose who steal during chaos
- plunderersThose who steal violently
- maraudersRoving plunderers
conquerors · invaders · occupiers · ransackers · spoilers · sacking · razing · conquest
reformation
Process of improving institutions
- puritanismRigid moral severity
- frescoesPaintings on fresh plaster
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
altarpiece · statuary · shrines · sanctuary · paganism · totem
exhumers
Those who unearth buried remains
- body-snatchersThieves of the deceased
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- mausoleumMonumental building for interment
sepulcher · burial · coffin · remains · bones · excavation · plundering · necropolis · catacombs · sarcophagus
- raidersraiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers, looters
desecratorsprotectors
Those who guard others
preservers · guardians · conservators · caretakers · custodians
desecratorssanctifiers
Those who make holy
worshippers · devotees · adorers · celebrants · exalters