profaner
Example Sentences
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To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
Her sainthood was so accomplished, her union with heaven so complete, that she could afford herself these profaner sympathies.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
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 Eugène Sue
Your gentle heart, my girl, is too pure and holy a shrine to afford refuge to a rebel, and a profaner of woman's sacred rights.”
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by St. George Tucker
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
