profaner

Example Sentences

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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

In the region of profaner things the two friends canvass the comparative worth of Sallust and of Tully's Epistles.

From Burke by Morley, John

It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.

From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt

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 Sudermann, Hermann

It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar