profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
unprofaned
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a word derived from
profane.
Example Sentences
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Sacred be this shrine; And unprofaned, by ruder hands, the stone That owes its honours to thy deathless name.'
From Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
It is he who has left us the first picture of Niagara Falls unprofaned by tourists; of the buffalo, now extinct except for a few scrawny specimens in parks, and of St. Anthony Falls.
From The French in the Heart of America by Finley, John
They have really wise and worthy views of the artist's avocation; if they remain true to them, they will enjoy a free, serene existence, unprofaned by undue care or sentimental sorrow.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
Frivolity, base appetite, contempt are exorcised; and man and woman appear again in unprofaned connection, as brother and sister, the children and the servants of the one Divine Love, and pilgrims to a common aim.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret
O, to latest days, In Albion may your influence unprofaned To godlike worth the generous bosom raise, And prompt the sage's lore, and fire the poet's lays!
From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George
