profaner
Example Sentences
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If, however," continued the dispassionate Being, "the profaner is left to himself he will, sooner or later, in the ordinary course of human intelligence, become involved in some disaster of his own contriving.
From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest
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
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
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
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
