profaner

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"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

Their shoes are high and of many soles, the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated over with a lift of silver, which is fastened with small nails with broad silver heads.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.

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 Mackay, Charles

In the region of profaner things the two friends canvass the comparative worth of Sallust and of Tully's Epistles.

From Burke by Morley, John

Yet sometimes, as in elder days, We come before the painter's eye, Or fix the sculptor's eager gaze, With no profaner witness nigh.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry