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
The Confraternity was not itself the author or performer of the profaner kind of dramatic performance.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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
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
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
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