Antonyms for profanation

Grammar : Noun

Spell : prof-uh-ney-shuhn

Phonetic Transcription : ˌprɒf əˈneɪ ʃən

Definition of profanation

Origin : 1550s, from Old French prophanation (15c., Modern French profanation) or directly from Late Latin profanationem (nominative profanatio), noun of action from past participle stem of profanare (see profane (adj.)).

noun sacrilege

Example sentences :

This is what Sunday might be made, and what it might be made without impiety or profanation.
Extract from : « Sunday under Three Heads » by Charles Dickens

Weighed in this scale, what a profanation is this man guilty of!
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

Their spirit of profanation and impiety arrived at the extreme pitch.
Extract from : « Roman Catholicism in Spain » by Anonymous

The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Haggerstone and he were intimates were it not a profanation of the word, we should say friends.
Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

What would the old counts of your ancestry have said to such a profanation?
Extract from : « Confessions Of Con Cregan » by Charles James Lever

Any profanation of the day was severely punished by fine or whipping.
Extract from : « Home Life in Colonial Days » by Alice Morse Earle

Spoke to you—touched you—looked at you—blasphemy, profanation and sacrilege!
Extract from : « Ambrotox and Limping Dick » by Oliver Fleming

I am no different from other Gods in that I seem to have endowed you with the instinct of profanation.
Extract from : « Fantazius Mallare » by Ben Hecht

Even if I could do it, it would be profanation for me to play at being in love.
Extract from : « The Picture of Dorian Gray » by Oscar Wilde

Synonyms for profanation

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