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

"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

"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

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