profaner

Example Sentences

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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 Lord, John

She spoke of him as "an empiric, a mean alchymist, a dreamer on the philosopher's stone, a false prophet, a profaner of the true worship, the self-dubbed Count Cagliostro!"

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

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 Sue, Eugène

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

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