How To Use Profaned In A Sentence
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Immediately the basket dropped from her hands and she cried out in agony that the atua or godhead of the chief, whose divinity had been thus profaned, would kill her.
Bygone Beliefs
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When Elijah complained, ‘they have slain your prophets, they have profaned your altars and only I am left’, the Lord replied, ‘What are you doing here?
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Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God.
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Thomas, they railed, had profaned a sacred text.
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Just beyond the good "sister" stood a young man, poring over a piece of paper, which had the appearance of a medical prescription: a spirited-looking youth, whose harmonious and intellectual cast of features was heightened to rare beauty by richly mellow coloring, and the silken curves of a beard and moustache unprofaned by a razor, -- curves softly traced above the fresh, rubious lips, and gracefully deepening about the cheeks and chin, -- curves that disappear forever when the civilized barbarism of shaving has been accepted.
Fairy Fingers A Novel
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Their behaviours profaned the holy place.
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A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content, and strength for the toils of the morrow, but a Sabbath profaned, whate'er may be gained, is a certain forerunner of sorrow.
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Sellers take pride in their wealth and because of this, their holy places will be profaned.
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The powers of the Parliament, reformed after the 1996 referendum, became largely symbolical while the rule of law was profaned since the main regulating documents were presidential decrees.
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With chisel and hammer they hack at all the paneling of the sanctuary. the place where your name abides they have razed and profaned.
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All that was sacred has been profaned, as Marx put it, and it is not clear what, if anything, is sacred anymore.
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Thy name blasphemed, thy temple's courts profaned?
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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Their behaviour profaned the holy place.
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Does it matter if John Wayne has profaned the Prophet?
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The dingbats who thought God's word had to be represented by some sculpture profaned the word of God.
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A Sabbath well spent brings a week of content, and strength for the toils of the morrow, but a Sabbath profaned, whate'er may be gained, is a certain forerunner of sorrow.
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Near by there stood an ancient grave which had never been profaned by the axe.
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This was particularly manifest in the way that the Sabbath was profaned and family worship neglected.
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Herein Judah is said to have dealt treacherously, for they basely betrayed their own honour and profaned that holiness of the Lord which they should have loved (so some read it); and it is said to be an abomination committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; it was hateful to
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Within two or three hours' sail of Glasgow one could find an almost pristine solitude of purple heather and solemn crags all unprofaned by watering-place gaiety or luxury.
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None could pierce the future; perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearthstones made desolate; the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
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But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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The reason why by polygamical marriages among Christians the marriage of the Lord and the church is profaned, is, because there is a correspondence between that divine marriage and the marriages of Christians; concerning which, see above, n. 83-102; which correspondence entirely perishes, if one wife is joined to another; and when it perishes, the married man is no longer a
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.
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Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day.
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Several suggestions were made as to the best way by which Her Majesty could be placed in the carriage unprofaned by a single male eye.
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Within a mile, the open country might be reached, and the senses refreshed and re-invigorated among streams still unpolluted, and woods and meadows as yet unprofaned by buildings.
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Their behaviours profaned the holy place.
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His action profaned the honour of his country.
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The senses of children are unprofaned.
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That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church.
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He could picture but one way of destroying this terrible loneliness, the attainment of a spiritual -- a divine -- state of love, a condition to which he would give no name utterable by human lips, lest it be profaned, but for which his whole being yearned.
Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life
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Their behaviour profaned the holy place.
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The spiritual (sense) contained therein is this, that by polygamical marriage in the Christian world, the marriage of the Lord and the Church is profaned; in like manner the marriage of good and truth; and still more the Word, and with the Word the church; and the profanation of those things is spiritual adultery.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
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Judah has dealt treacherously, and broken covenant with God, the covenant made in Ezra's time with reference to this very thing; he has profaned the holiness of the Lord by marrying the daughter (that is, the worshipper) of a strange god.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)
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They have profaned the long upheld traditions of the Church.
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For two hours he spoke below the brazen sky — the sky which, he cried, is daily profaned and violated by the Yanqui spy planes, “to destroy which,” he demanded, “who of us is not ready to die?”
Fidel Castro
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One of Christianity's holiest shrines was profaned by armed terrorists.
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To have your religion distorted and ridiculed and then to have one of your culture's most deeply treasured expressions purposely profaned - well, it's not very pleasant.
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Truaillighim, & truaillimyiQ pollute, unhallow, or profane.ex. do thruailUgh fé an ceall naomhthay he profaned the iacred church, rb thruail a anam ria craos, he pol - luted his foul with excefs. alfo to
Focalóir gaoidhilge-sax-bhéarla, or An Irish-English dictionary. Whereof the Irish part hath been compiled not only from various Irish vocabularies, particularly that of Mr. Edward Lhuyd; but also from a great variety of the best Irish manuscripts now e
