profanation

How To Use profanation In A Sentence

• The profanation of the sabbath is a sin for which God has often contended with a people by fire. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• + In "Callimachus" the violence of passion is carried to a threatened profanation of the dead which however is miraculously averted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
• “The court declares the accused duly attainted and convicted of superstitions, impieties, sacrileges, profanations, and poisonings.” A Philosophical Dictionary
• Wirth adds that the rise in Last Judgment imagery occurs not coincidentally at a time when the profanation of the Host becomes a concern of zealous clerics.
• I wish to repeat what I wrote in my Message for January1: It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name.
• Neal laughed, but he felt that to use Una's hair as a wrap for the red pulp of a crab's back or the soft, black belly of a limpet was a kind of profanation. The Northern Iron
• He elevated acts of profanation or desecration to the status of epiphanies: singular mystical moments of Oneness with the All.
• How could they rear me from infancy to think you profanation ? THE THORN BIRDS
• Lord's day at his house, (which he slighted, not loving to be called a puritan) Mr. Welch came one day to his gate and calling him out to tell him, that he had a message from God to shew him, that because he had slighted the advice given him from the Lord, and would not restrain the profanation of the Lord's day committed in his bounds; therefore the Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
• And it is your duty to the Sacrament - that It might not suffer profanation.