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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Frivolity, base appetite, contempt, are exorcised, and Man and Woman appear again, in unprofaned connection, as brother and sister, children and servants of one Divine Love, and pilgrims to a common aim.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
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 John Finley
On his left sank the cliffs, the furious river raging below; till at length, in primeval solitudes, unprofaned as yet by the pettiness of man, the imperial cataract burst upon his sight.
From France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 by Francis Parkman
Here was the virgin and unprofaned loveliness of Nature.
From The Redemption of David Corson by Charles Frederic Goss
It is what Italy might 385 be in a golden age—her ruins rebuilt into the transparent air, her woods unprofaned, her people pastoral and refined, and every valley a landscape of Arcadia.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
