profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
had profaned
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past perfectof profane.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When he thought of it there stood before his eyes the figure of the outcast who had profaned his yearnings for art.
From Dame Care by Bertha Overbeck
Dread, not unmingled with the superstitious fear that he had profaned a holy place by laying himself down in it, is his prevailing feeling, and he pleads ignorance as the excuse for his sacrilege.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture by Alexander Maclaren
But neither Matte nor Maie could sleep a wink; the one thought of how he had profaned Sunday, and the other of Ahti's cow.
From The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
There was no mercy in it, and the elements were pitting their immortal strength against two pigmies who had profaned their sanctuary.
From Mr. Standfast by John Buchan
He felt merely that this hapless creature, lying so deathlike before him, had profaned, however involuntarily, what was sacredest in the world to him; beyond this all was chaos.
From A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells
