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
- "That 's what I call a profane remark, Ellery Davenport," she said.
- I write sentences with out a fuck'in profane word in it all the time.
- The word profane comes from the Latin profanus which literally means from the temple.
- Today we received a shipment of a new item with a name profane enough that I can't use it here on Epinions.
- So even that which we call profane, even that which we call diabolical is a different face of the same divine intelligence.
- An online video showed actor Christian Bale in profane rant against a crew member who had walked into a shot on a film set.
- And the word profane is usually taken in the Scripture for the same with common; and consequently their contraries, holy and proper, in the kingdom of God must be the same also.
- Which words are exactly considered profane is still unclear, but the bill does have a list of qualifications for profanity including words or actions that are lewd, vulgar or indecent in nature.
- The spring season in New York is, happily and atypically, plump with demonstrations of such genre bending, with entrancingly wicked shows that extract the profane from the sacred and the rot from the pillars of society.
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