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profaned

[ UK /pɹəfˈe‍ɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. treated irreverently or sacrilegiously

How To Use profaned In A Sentence

  • That the nunnery was a sacred place, and ought not to be profaned by the admission of enemies of the church. Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
  • But there was always Leam in the background with whom he had to reckon -- Leam, who wandered through the house in her straight-cut, plain black gown, made in the deepest fashion of mourning devisable, pale, silent, feverish, like an avenging spirit on his track; undoing what he had done if he had profaned an embodied memory of her mother, and as impervious to his anger as he was to her despair. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
  • The reason why by polygamical marriages among Christians the marriage of the Lord and the church is profaned, is, because there is a correspondence between that divine marriage and the marriages of Christians; concerning which, see above, n. 83-102; which correspondence entirely perishes, if one wife is joined to another; and when it perishes, the married man is no longer a The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
  • I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.
  • Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day.
  • Several suggestions were made as to the best way by which Her Majesty could be placed in the carriage unprofaned by a single male eye.
  • Within a mile, the open country might be reached, and the senses refreshed and re-invigorated among streams still unpolluted, and woods and meadows as yet unprofaned by buildings.
  • Their behaviours profaned the holy place.
  • His action profaned the honour of his country.
  • The senses of children are unprofaned.
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