profaner

Example Sentences

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Her sainthood was so accomplished, her union with heaven so complete, that she could afford herself these profaner sympathies.

From The Helpmate by Sinclair, May

As may be imagined, they were the subject of derision by the profaner wits of the day.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

"Where are you going, unhappy profaner of ecclesiastical psalmody?"

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous

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 Sudermann, Hermann

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 Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron