profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
profaner
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a word derived from
profane.
Example Sentences
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It would do well to cramp the articles dormant, besides the opportunity of reforming these beasts of the prerogative, and changing their profaner names of Harry and Charles into Nehemiah and Eleazar.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
"Man, clod, profaner of the shrine of poesy, cease your ignorant cackle," cried the irate dominie.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
As may be imagined, they were the subject of derision by the profaner wits of the day.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
Their shoes are high and of many soles, the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated over with a lift of silver, which is fastened with small nails with broad silver heads.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
