profaner
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As may be imagined, they were the subject of derision by the profaner wits of the day.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
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
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
"Where are you going, unhappy profaner of ecclesiastical psalmody?"
From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous
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 Charles Mackay
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