Profaned can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
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| profaned - treated irreverently or sacrilegiously | ||
Verb |
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| profane - To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God. | ||
| profane - To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile. |
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| 1. | verb | Fresh wonder seized us, and we shook with fear. / All say, that justly had Laocoon died, / and paid fit penalty, whose guilty spear / profaned the steed and pierced the sacred side. | |
| 2. | verb | "But when Ulysses, fain / to weave new crimes, with Tydeus' impious son / dragged the Palladium from her sacred fane, / and, on the citadel the warders slain, / upon the virgin's image dared to lay / red hands of slaughter, and her wreaths profane, / hope ebbed and failed them from that fatal day, / the Danaans' strength grew weak, the goddess turned away. / No dubious signs Tritonia's wrath declared." | |
| 3. | adj. | Sacred and profane music. | |
| 4. | adj. | Children being brought up in an entirely profane environment. | |
| 5. | adj. | Profane utterances against the Church. | |
| 6. | adj. | Profane words. | |
| 7. | adj. | The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable. | |
| 8. | adj. | We call scriptures the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. | |
| 9. | adj. | Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man. | |
| 10. | adj. | "To thee, yea, thee, fierce miscreant", he cried, / may Heaven, if Heaven with righteous eyes behold / so foul an outrage and a deed so bold, / ne'er fail a fitting guerdon to ordain, / nor worthy quittance for thy crime withhold, / whose hand hath made me see my darling slain, / and dared with filial blood a father's eyes profane." | |
| 11. | adj. | And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane): | |
| 12. | adj. | The most profane word and the rudest letter are the best, they're more educated than silence. |
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| Fresh wonder seized us, and we shook with fear. / All say, that justly had Laocoon died, / and paid fit penalty, whose guilty spear / profaned the steed and pierced the sacred side. | |
| "But when Ulysses, fain / to weave new crimes, with Tydeus' impious son / dragged the Palladium from her sacred fane, / and, on the citadel the warders slain, / upon the virgin's image dared to lay / red hands of slaughter, and her wreaths profane, / hope ebbed and failed them from that fatal day, / the Danaans' strength grew weak, the goddess turned away. / No dubious signs Tritonia's wrath declared." | |
| adj. | |
| Sacred and profane music. |
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| Children being brought up in an entirely profane environment. |
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| Profane utterances against the Church. |
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| Profane words. |
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| The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable. | |
| We call scriptures the sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. | |
| Know then that in the time of the Great Rebellion this Manor of Baskerville was held by Hugo of that name, nor can it be gainsaid that he was a most wild, profane, and godless man. | |
| "To thee, yea, thee, fierce miscreant", he cried, / may Heaven, if Heaven with righteous eyes behold / so foul an outrage and a deed so bold, / ne'er fail a fitting guerdon to ordain, / nor worthy quittance for thy crime withhold, / whose hand hath made me see my darling slain, / and dared with filial blood a father's eyes profane." | |
| And when it was set on, for Joseph apart, and for his brethren apart, for the Egyptians also that ate with him apart, (for it is unlawful for the Egyptians to eat with the Hebrews, and they think such a feast profane): | |
| The most profane word and the rudest letter are the best, they're more educated than silence. | |