profaned
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8.1
- adjective
- /prəˈfeɪnd/
- Paolo Uccello completed the altarpiece's predella, the Miracle of the Profaned Host, most likely by 1468 (Fig. 2).
Examples
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The reason to try to understand God is, in Demia's view, kind of a profane, sacrilegious thing.
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The rain makes them howl like dogs, and the profane wretches often turn themselves on one side, making a shelter for the other.
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And I was burgling this kind of profane, sacred sense of who they were and that they would never come back to these things.
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Many people believe that using profanity in sacred places is a way of having profaned their sanctity.
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The comedian's jokes seemed to have profaned the serious nature of the religious ceremony.
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She felt that the artwork had been profaned by its display in a nightclub instead of a gallery.
Synonyms
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8.1
To damage or show disrespect to a holy place, for example a grave
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7.2
To treat a holy place or thing with disrespect
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Showing no respect for a sacred place or object
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8.3
A place or object that people treat with no respect, especially if it is sacred
Treat a holy place like a temple with disrespect by damaging or polluting it
To make a place or thing no longer holy
Antonyms
How Irreverent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Profaned comes from Latin parts pro- meaning 'before' or 'outside' and fanum meaning 'temple', a sacred place. So something profaned is treated 'outside' the sacred — in other words, treated as 'not sacred' or without respect.