profaner
Example Sentences
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Your gentle heart, my girl, is too pure and holy a shrine to afford refuge to a rebel, and a profaner of woman's sacred rights.”
From Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion by Tucker, St. George
He threatened to denounce me to the high priest as a profaner of the holy days, and to have me thrown into prison!'
From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène
To my songs Be present ye with favourable feet, And all profaner audience far remove.
From Poetical Works of Akenside by Gilfillan, George
"Man, clod, profaner of the shrine of poesy, cease your ignorant cackle," cried the irate dominie.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
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 Mackay, Charles
