profaner

Example Sentences

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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

Their shoes are high and of many soles, the outside whereof of the profaner sort are plated over with a lift of silver, which is fastened with small nails with broad silver heads.

From Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited by Wilson, Robert A.

He threatened to denounce me to the high priest as a profaner of the holy days, and to have me thrown into prison!'

From The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth by Sue, Eugène

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