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 Richard Henry Stoddard
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
Their shoes are high and of many soles, the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated over with a lift of silver, which is fastened with small nails with broad silver heads.
From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Robert A. Wilson
"And as a proof," added the clerk, "here are the shoes of the profaner of the temple;" and he placed a pair of shoes upon the desk as he spoke.
From Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
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
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