profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
profanes
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present tense formof profane (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It reads: “He that violates his oath profanes the divinity of faith itself.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
It profanes and pulverizes any claim she might have on representing the interests of mothers and children.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 1, 2018
It is just not true that all today's modern art despises or profanes the past.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2013
When the wind is right, the indescribable perfume of some of the world's most thoroughly fermented tidal flats profanes the air.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh that better curse of poverty, which puts corrupting poison into the wounds inflicted by nature, which outrages the spirit's tenderness, which profanes with unutterable defilement the secret places of the mourning heart!
From The Nether World by George Gissing
