unprofaned
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Every article he had touched was sacred, and remained unprofaned by other hands.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various
Walpole calls him 'one of those divine men who, like a chapel in a palace, remained unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly.'
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton
Frivolity, base appetite, contempt, are exorcised, and Man and Woman appear again, in unprofaned connection, as brother and sister, children and servants of one Divine Love, and pilgrims to a common aim.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
Mon amie," said he, "none knows what I have done save you and myself: the pleasure is consecrated to us two, unshared and unprofaned.
From Villette by Charlotte Brontë
How save the ark, Or holy of holies, unprofaned a day From his unscrupulous curiosity That handles everything as if to buy, 560 Tossing aside what fabrics delicate Suit not the rough-and-tumble of his ways?
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
