profaner

Example Sentences

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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)

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

"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 Verne, Jules

It never stepped into the glare, the contention of profaner air.

From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt

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