Thesaurus / profanation
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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to profanation, such as: blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, and impiety.
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The limbs and members of the slain Christ were made the vehicle of revolting profanation.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANHe gazed and then he did not gaze at all—it seemed like a profanation.
THE VARMINTOWEN JOHNSONHe looked upon married life, with all its hallowed beauty, as a profanation for a priest.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORDHave not many, who have ended their days on the scaffold, traced their ruin to the profanation of the Sabbath?
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTRarely, if ever, has there been a more ghastly profanation of the Holy Sacrament of Regeneration!
SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERSCYRUS TOWNSEND BRADYIs not the temple as much ruined when this profanation has been accomplished, as if the walls had fallen?
THE EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLSANNA CALLENDER BRACKETTAttempts have been made historically to identify this profanation, but it is doubtful if these have been successful.
EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEWJOHN MONRO GIBSONShe was already lost when some last impulse of horror cried out against the irreparable profanation.
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY?RUPERT HUGHESIn the presence of their beloved dead, this man's unsympathetic attitude seemed almost a profanation.
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONERMAX MARCINIt seemed like profanation that any one but God should listen to this outcry of a quivering, writhing soul.
OTHER MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADSHAMLIN GARLANDWORDS RELATED TO PROFANATION
- anathema
- ban
- bane
- blasphemy
- commination
- cursing
- cuss word
- cussing
- damning
- denunciation
- dirty name
- dirty word
- double whammy
- execration
- expletive
- four-letter word
- fulmination
- imprecation
- malediction
- malison
- naughty words
- no-no
- oath
- objuration
- obloquy
- obscenity
- profanation
- profanity
- sacrilege
- swear word
- swearing
- vilification
- whammy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.