Usually means: Removing sacred status from place.
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  1. deconsecration: Merriam-Webster
  2. deconsecration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deconsecration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deconsecration: Wordnik
  5. deconsecration: Wiktionary
  6. deconsecration: Dictionary.com
  7. Deconsecration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. deconsecration: FreeDictionary.org
  9. deconsecration: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deconsecration)

noun:  The undoing of consecration; a desecration or defilement.
noun:  A ritual observing the removal from service of a sacred place, such as the closing of a church.

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