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Meanings of profane in English
Portuguese
profano Not concerned with or devoted to religion.
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Not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled.
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Usage of profane in English
1
The profane words are but a speck in a sea of monosyllables.
2
It was the profane heathen, of whom Israel learned to worship idols.
3
The profane is judged by all; but the other by a few.
4
August 22:-Veryprofane and vindictive in his accusations towards the prison officials.
5
The rough ashlar is the profane, the perfect ashlar is the initiate.
6
The merciless wits, clerical and profane, of the court of Charles II.
7
The old men, in especial, got quite profane, and screamed excited billingsgate.
8
It is a rudely brilliant, infuriatingly beautiful, belligerently profane work of art.
9
Now the graffiti may be profane; the images might get your goat.
10
Reference to its worth and necessity abounds in sacred and profane history.
11
Avoid profane language and sarcasm, which is not easily detected in e-mail.
12
The foot of the Spanish soldier should no longer profane their soil.
13
There are numerous references in sacred and profane writers to this symbolism.
14
I worshipped the divinity, even while I attempted to profane the altar.
15
Superstition is believed in by persons accounted neither irreligious nor desperately profane.
16
Some of them were exchanging profane and pleasant badinage with the prisoner.
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Profane across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common