profaner
Example Sentences
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He threatened to denounce me to the high priest as a profaner of the holy days, and to have me thrown into prison!'
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Eugène Sue
Your gentle heart, my girl, is too pure and holy a shrine to afford refuge to a rebel, and a profaner of woman's sacred rights.”
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
Much of the profaner criticism uttered by such authorities as the Cardinal de Retz, Voltaire, Frederic the Great, Daunou, and Mazzini is not more convincing or more real.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
It would do well to cramp the articles dormant, besides the opportunity of reforming these beasts of the prerogative, and changing their profaner names of Harry and Charles into Nehemiah and Eleazar.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
