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
She takes it up and looks at it as if he had profaned a relic.
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw
The covenant-people which, inwardly, had submitted to the world, which, by its own guilt, had profaned itself, was, outwardly also, given up to the world, and was profaned in punishment.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
After this, Judas and his brethren came to Jerusalem, pulled down the altar which the heathen had profaned, and set up a new altar.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
To make an easy answer to her inconvenient question he had profaned his conviction that the life of the body was decorous and honourable.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
