Example Sentences

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It will not be accepted; 19:8 but everyone who eats it shall bear his iniquity, because he has profaned the holy thing of Yahweh, and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

From The World English Bible (WEB): Leviticus by Anonymous

Who has profaned the sacred name of friend, And worn it into vileness!

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

No gossip or worldly talk has profaned the sacred day.

From Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er by Hitchcock, Elizabeth Arnold

At the moment when he takes the crown into his hand, and before he has profaned it by its resting on his brow, Hungary shall be free.”

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various

Do you remember what sacred ties that man has broken? what memories he has profaned? what years of faithful love he has cast from him?

From The Evil Genius by Collins, Wilkie