profaned

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Simple past tense and past participle of profane
Treated with irreverence or lacking due respect
treated irreverently or sacrilegiously
Past participle of profane
profane
A person or thing that is profane

The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.

profane
Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing
profane
Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular
profane
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
profane
{a} ungodly, wicked, polluted, common
profane
{v} to pollute, violate, misapply, abuse
profane
To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God
profane
grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
profane
Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place
profane
A person not a Mason
profane
violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"
profane
means literally before the temple (Latin, pro fanum) Those persons who came to the temple and were not initiated were called profane by the Romans
profane
Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
profane
not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
profane
To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile
profane
Something that is profane is concerned with everyday life rather than religion and spiritual things. Cardinal Daly has said that churches should not be used for profane or secular purposes. spiritual
profane
Elements which belong to the ordinary everyday world rather than the supernatural
profane
Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy
profane
characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
profane
{s} secular, not consecrated; agnostic, heretical; vulgar; unholy, not sacred; serving to desecrate what is sacred, blasphemous
profane
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
profane
If someone profanes a religious belief or institution, they treat it with disrespect. They have profaned the long upheld traditions of the Church. to treat something holy with a lack of respect
profane
The ordinary and commonplace elements of life, as distinguished from the sacred (See 323)
profane
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
profane
Profane behaviour shows disrespect for a religion or religious things. profane language
profane
Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place
profane
{f} desecrate what is sacred, blaspheme; defile, contaminate, make impure
profane
not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
profane
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious
profane
not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment
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