profanation

How To Use profanation In A Sentence

• And it is your duty to the Sacrament - that It might not suffer profanation.
• It is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others.
• I wish to repeat what I wrote in my Message for January1: It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name.
• It may include feelings of guilt or profanation, at times engendering a twinge-or surge-of regret, an impulse to repent.
• The spiritual (sense) contained therein is this, that by polygamical marriage in the Christian world, the marriage of the Lord and the Church is profaned; in like manner the marriage of good and truth; and still more the Word, and with the Word the church; and the profanation of those things is spiritual adultery. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
• This profanation may offend people of tradition, whether Jews or Christians.
• A sincere lover of religion, he was an abhorrer of all that he esteemed priestcraft; of all profanation, he held it to be the worst. Things By Their Right Names
• How could they rear me from infancy to think you profanation ? THE THORN BIRDS
• The profanation of the sabbath is a sin for which God has often contended with a people by fire. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• Lord's day at his house, (which he slighted, not loving to be called a puritan) Mr. Welch came one day to his gate and calling him out to tell him, that he had a message from God to shew him, that because he had slighted the advice given him from the Lord, and would not restrain the profanation of the Lord's day committed in his bounds; therefore the Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies