profaner
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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 Charles Mackay
So she descended the three door steps and entered the profaner carriage entrance, where several labourers in white overalls were busily engaged covering the bare brick walls with highly veined marble stucco.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
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
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 Peter Annet
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 Richard Henry Stoddard
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