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Meanings of sacrilegious in English

Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred.

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Examples for "profane"
Examples for "profane"
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The profane words are but a speck in a sea of monosyllables.
Wired
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It was the profane heathen, of whom Israel learned to worship idols.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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The profane is judged by all; but the other by a few.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
4
August 22:-Veryprofane and vindictive in his accusations towards the prison officials.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
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The rough ashlar is the profane, the perfect ashlar is the initiate.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry / Illustrating and Explaining Its S...
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In such an atmosphere, Rouhani's words could be seen as quite blasphemous.
The Guardian
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Something in the blasphemous strength of the words attracted the Wanderer's attention.
The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
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Demonstrators were incensed by a U.S.-made film they consider blasphemous to Islam.
Reuters
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Such are the blasphemous ideas suggested to me by my corrupt mind.
Recollections of My Youth
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I understand it to be a, blasphemous parody of the Catholic Mass.
Witchcraft Today
Usage of sacrilegious in English
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Or was that just the most sacrilegious thought she'd had so far?
Bloodchild and Other Stories
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Music was always in our home despite the sacrilegious aspect of it.
Ebony
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Other Americans are here in garb that seems deliberately sacrilegious: American-flag kilts.
Reuters
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The abbess, of the bold lineage of Rudesheim, refused the sacrilegious demand.
The Pilgrims of the Rhine
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He shrugged his shoulders and restored the sacrilegious knife to its sheath.
The Purple Land / Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adve...
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And from this pestilent beginning, the other sacrilegious conceits followed on me.
The Confessions of St. Augustine
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All words seemed vain and sacrilegious after this sublimest language of revelation.
Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author
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It's practically sacrilegious, even if the gadgets are just dead weight now.
Angelfall
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Okoya felt shocked at words which sounded to him like sacrilegious talk.
The Delight Makers
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You have dreamed, you told me, of strange and almost sacrilegious love.
Monsieur de Camors — Volume 2
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As Manasseh was sacrilegious toward God, he was malevolent toward his fellows.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
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But there was, he was shocked to say, a new sacrilegious intrusion.
Openings in the Old Trail
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To pray now, when he was about to join her, seemed sacrilegious.
Frontier courtship
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What wanton and sacrilegious hand has dared deface the work of God?
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de...
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The popping of the exhaust would have seemed sacrilegious in this holy quiet.
The River and I
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The wasp-gods would be forgotten; probably smoked out as sacrilegious intruders.
Scientific Essays and Lectures
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United Kingdom
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