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Definitioner
Adjektiv
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- 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.
Substantiv
- A person or thing that is profane.
- (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
Verb
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Exempel
- Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
- profane authors
- The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.
- a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
- [...] the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane [...]
- The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
- With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife, as he carved the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.
- These books are profane, and should be banned.
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