profane

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1. profane - Noun

2. profane - Adjective

3. profane - Verb

4. profane - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place.

Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.

Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.

Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.

To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. Ernest Hemingway

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. Henry David Thoreau

We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. Tariq Ali

SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. Ambrose Bierce

One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. Percy Bysshe Shelley

You will mix what is sacred with what is profane. Latin Proverb

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