profaner

Example Sentences

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The Confraternity was not itself the author or performer of the profaner kind of dramatic performance.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.

From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt

All the city was soon in an uproar, the devout people seized Paul, drew him out of the Temple, the gates of which were closed against this profaner.

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter

"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 Campbell, John

He denied that he was a profaner of the true worship, or that he had ever striven to bring religion into contempt; on the contrary, he respected every man's religion, and never meddled with it.

From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Mackay, Charles