profaner
Example Sentences
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"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
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
Their shoes are high and of many soles, the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated over with a lift of silver, which is fastened with small nails with broad silver heads.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
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
