PROFANE


Meaning of PROFANE in English

adj. 25B6; adjective

subjects both sacred and profane : SECULAR, lay, non-religious, temporal; formal laic.

a profane man : IRREVERENT, irreligious, ungodly, godless, unbelieving, impious, disrespectful, sacrilegious.

profane language : OBSCENE, blasphemous, indecent, foul, vulgar, crude, filthy, dirty, smutty, coarse, rude, offensive, indecorous.

religious, sacred, reverent, decorous.

25B6; verb invaders profaned our temples : DESECRATE, violate, defile, treat sacrilegiously.

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