profaner
Example Sentences
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Then Pete plunged into one of the profaner tunes which he had practised in the days of the cowhouse, and off went Katherine with a whoop.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
"Where are you going, unhappy profaner of ecclesiastical psalmody?"
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
"Man, clod, profaner of the shrine of poesy, cease your ignorant cackle," cried the irate dominie.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
Jerusalem was then full of strangers, and the Jews of Asia recognizing Paul in the Temple, raised a disturbance, pretending that he was a profaner of the sacred edifice.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
But I own that what tended most to restore my courage, and really increased my physical powers, was the profaner oracle of my beloved Ariosto:— "Between the end of October and the beginning of November."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
