profaner
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It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
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
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
It would do well to cramp the articles dormant, besides the opportunity of reforming these beasts of the prerogative, and changing their profaner names of Harry and Charles into Nehemiah and Eleazar.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
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