profaner

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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

"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

It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

All the city was soon in an uproar, the devout people seized Paul, drew him out of the Temple, the gates of which were closed against this profaner.

From Critical Examination of the Life of St. Paul by Annet, Peter

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)