profane
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6.3
- adjective
- /prəˈfeɪn/
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profano
- His text is littered with examples drawn from a wide variety of historical sources, both sacred and profane.
- sacred and profane
- secular and profane
- profane space
It's my favorite form of nuptials, a kind of mystical union, save it occurs most often in profane places.
- It's my favorite form of nuptials, a kind of mystical union, save it occurs most often in profane places.
- We talk about this as being transcendent to creation, or at least transcendent to the, the mundane or, or, you know, profane or worldly realm.
- Our secular world is not in our terms, profane.
Examples
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OK, so from the sacred to the profane, I just want to also get this one in.
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Hopefully, as we do, we will trade what is culturally profane for what is truly sacred.
Blog text (34) -
There are ordinary, common, profane days, work days.
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We are profane in our breathing and that comes because we think so much and thinking is not doing.
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We also welcome commentary on sacred, classic, and profane literature, film, and artistic expression.
Blog text (2) -
It's my favorite form of nuptials, a kind of mystical union, save it occurs most often in profane places.
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For the believer, this is the "real" world, as opposed to the disordered, profane world outside the circle of belief.
Academic text (1997) -
However, profane space in Medjugorje may serve to heighten the significance of the sacred for pilgrims.
Academic text (1997) -
It does seem anthropologically that wherever we look, people tend to have some kind of yes, of the sacred and the profane and the numinous and the religious.
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Many artists explore the relationship between the sacred and profane in their work.
Synonyms
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4.7
Not connected with religion, about everyday and public life
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6.1
Not sacred and not fit for worship
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9.0
Not made holy or set aside for religious use
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8.9
Not made holy in a religious ceremony
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9.9
A thing not made holy or blessed
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5.6
About everyday life or material things, not about religion
Not holy or used in religious ceremonies
Antonyms
How Sacred
Surface Forms
Etymology
Profane comes from Latin parts pro- 'outside' and fanum 'temple', literally 'outside the temple'. That is why profane can mean 'not religious' or ordinary, the opposite of sacred.