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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
profane .
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Examples
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He who profanes that name profanes a sacred thing, and is guilty of what is, in reality, a sacrilege.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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The world is mastered by the convention of love, and when one profanes love's Holy of Holies the world is unutterably shocked and hurt.
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Tanqueray: Calling the 20th century theology "advanced" is a misunderstanding, as abstract and mysterious for the uninitiated profanes as it may be it's just diving in the false philosophies that have originated among the Protestants.
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009
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Letting him do a major motion picture about 9/11 profanes the memory of those who died there and licenses him to convert the consecrated ruins at Ground Zero into an open-air cathedral to preach a pothead gospel of paranoia and anti-Americanism.
Oliver Stone and Steven Spielberg: The Doublemint Twins of Treason: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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"Calling the 20th century theology "advanced" is a misunderstanding, as abstract and mysterious for the uninitiated profanes as it may be it's just diving in the false philosophies that have originated among the Protestants."
Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission 2009
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We have possibly trumped-up charges against a child soldier, and a corrupt, deformed legal process that profanes the very name of justice.
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We have possibly trumped-up charges against a child soldier, and a corrupt, deformed legal process that profanes the very name of justice.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult but threatens the very fabric of international society.
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When he chooses evil he abuses and profanes his most sacred possession.
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If she profanes herself by playing the harlot, she shall be burned with fire.
My Dreams Out in the Street Kim Addonizio 2007
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