profaner
Example Sentences
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To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by George Gilfillan
He denied that he was a profaner of the true worship, or that he had ever striven to bring religion into contempt; on the contrary, he respected every man's religion, and never meddled with it.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
She spoke of him as "an empiric, a mean alchymist, a dreamer on the philosopher's stone, a false prophet, a profaner of the true worship, the self-dubbed Count Cagliostro!"
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay
Her sainthood was so accomplished, her union with heaven so complete, that she could afford herself these profaner sympathies.
From The Helpmate by May Sinclair
Much of the profaner criticism uttered by such authorities as the Cardinal de Retz, Voltaire, Frederic the Great, Daunou, and Mazzini is not more convincing or more real.
From The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
