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unsacred

unsacred

English

Adjective

unsacred (not comparable)

  1. Not sacred or sacrosanct; thus, accessible
    • 2009, January 11, “Holland Cotter”, in Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts:
      Several of our veteran museums are doing by undoing: loosening up the rigid values and temple-of-art models that shaped them, and replacing these with a new "people's museum" model, unsacred in atmosphere, fluid in values, with complicated answers to the question of what museums are.