Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Profaning or desecrating; destructive to sacred character or nature; apt to produce irreverence, contempt, or the like.
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- adjective profaning or tending to desecrate
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Examples
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Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantaisie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught; but she was not to be overlooked, nor baulked of her mortal privileges.
Villette 2003
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Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantaisie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught; but she was not to be overlooked, nor baulked of her mortal privileges.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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