profaner
Example Sentences
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It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
Much of the profaner criticism uttered by such authorities as the Cardinal de Retz, Voltaire, Frederic the Great, Daunou, and Mazzini is not more convincing or more real.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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 Ernest Bramah
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
