profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
profaning
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present participleof profane.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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This bears mentioning since Hargitay opened Monday’s Emmys telecast by performing “I Love TV Screens,” profaning Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll” in doing so.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
And of course there were important rules about the worship of Yahweh, including loving him, fearing him, emulating him, and not profaning his name.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
“Some have even claimed that only by being here, by my presence, I am traumatizing the Kercher family again, and profaning Meredith’s memory. They are wrong.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2019
This task is made more difficult by the novelist’s mustache-twirling contempt for profaning fiction with reality.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 17, 2018
He was prevented, however, by the timely interference of two Aztec lords from thus profaning, before the assembled multitudes of his people, the sacred person of their master.
From Sketches of Aboriginal Life American Tableaux, No. 1 by V. V. Vide
