profaner

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Yet sometimes, as in elder days, We come before the painter's eye, Or fix the sculptor's eager gaze, With no profaner witness nigh.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

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

In the region of profaner things the two friends canvass the comparative worth of Sallust and of Tully's Epistles.

From Burke by Morley, John

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

Her sainthood was so accomplished, her union with heaven so complete, that she could afford herself these profaner sympathies.

From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May