profane
IPA: proʊfˈeɪn
noun
- A person or thing that is profane.
- (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
verb
- (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
- (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
adjective
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
- Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain
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Examples of "profane" in Sentences
- Otto barely discusses the profane in The Holy.
- Carnal meaning the same as profane in this sense.
- Please keep the profane language used by the artists.
- She upholds the sacred but sheds light on the profane.
- The edited version substituted other words in for the profane ones.
- He has an idiosyncratic combination of the profound and the profane.
- Even the wikipedia article on the term doesn't suggest that it's profane.
- The devotion puts him for ever outside to the sphere of the profane world.