profaner
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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 Charles Mackay
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
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
Then Pete plunged into one of the profaner tunes which he had practised in the days of the cowhouse, and off went Katherine with a whoop.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
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