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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
- 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
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