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UK
/pɹəfˈeɪn/
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[ US /pɹoʊˈfeɪn/ ]
[ US /pɹoʊˈfeɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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not concerned with or devoted to religion
sacred and profane music
secular drama
secular architecture
children being brought up in an entirely profane environment -
characterized by profanity or cursing
blue language
foul-mouthed and blasphemous
profane words - not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
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grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
profane utterances against the Church
it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on
blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath
VERB
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violate the sacred character of a place or language
violate the sanctity of the church
desecrate a cemetery
profane the name of God -
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Do school counselors subvert young children?
corrupt the morals
debauch the young people with wine and women
Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
How To Use profane In A Sentence
- When it comes to rock music, the line is thin dividing the sacred and the profane. Christianity Today
- He was easily the smartest, funniest, most annoying and most profane man I've been around.
- That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
- In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction
- Richard Kraft: Something With Birds In It | A site-specific installation composed of four elements, Something With Birds In It invokes the friction and fluidity between familiar polarities--between the sacred and profane, sense and nonsense, play and violence, reflection and action. Bill Bush: Seeing Red: This Artweek.LA (October 24-30, 2011)
- Martin accuses the English translators of interpreting such words in their "etymological" sense, and consulting profane writers, Homer, Early Theories of Translation
- The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power.
- That young hair brained fellow has sent us a brace of petticoats aboard; and these the profane reprobate calls his divinities! The Red Rover
- Nothing was divine any more; everything was profane.
- Every step which led him to the summit of power was prefaced by what he called seeking the Lord; that is, attending sermons and prayers, by which the suborned performers of those profane and solemn farces prepared their congregations to desire what their employers had previously determined to do; thus giving an air of divine inspiration to the projects of fraud, murder, and ambition. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
