profaner

Example Sentences

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It would do well to cramp the articles dormant, besides the opportunity of reforming these beasts of the prerogative, and changing their profaner names of Harry and Charles into Nehemiah and Eleazar.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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

"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

But I own that what tended most to restore my courage, and really increased my physical powers, was the profaner oracle of my beloved Ariosto:— "Between the end of October and the beginning of November."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

"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