profaner

Example Sentences

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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

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

If, however," continued the dispassionate Being, "the profaner is left to himself he will, sooner or later, in the ordinary course of human intelligence, become involved in some disaster of his own contriving.

From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest

It was these profaner images that inflamed Phædra and Pasiphae.

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

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