profaner
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So she descended the three door steps and entered the profaner carriage entrance, where several labourers in white overalls were busily engaged covering the bare brick walls with highly veined marble stucco.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
"And as a proof," added the clerk, "here are the shoes of the profaner of the temple;" and he placed a pair of shoes upon the desk as he spoke.
From Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
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
In the region of profaner things the two friends canvass the comparative worth of Sallust and of Tully's Epistles.
From Burke by John Morley
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