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profane English

Meaning profane meaning

What does profane mean?
Definitions in simple English

profane Adjective

— If something is profane, it is not sacred or holy. — If a person is profane, they treat something sacred or religious with disrespect.

profane Verb

— If you profane, you treat something sacred or religious with disrespect. One should not profane the name of God.

profane

— adjective (= blasphemous, blue) characterized by profanity or cursing foul-mouthed and blasphemous blue language profane words — adjective (= secular) not concerned with or devoted to religion sacred and profane music secular drama secular architecture children being brought up in an entirely profane environment — adjective (= unconsecrated) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled — adjective (= blasphemous, sacrilegious) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath profane utterances against the Church it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on — verb (= desecrate, violate) violate the sacred character of a place or language desecrate a cemetery violate the sanctity of the church profane the name of God — verb (= corrupt, subvert, debauch) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality debauch the young people with wine and women Socrates was accused of corrupting young men Do school counselors subvert young children? corrupt the morals

Synonyms profane synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as profane?

profane English » English

desecrate defile blasphemous violate secular sacrilegious debase corrupt blaspheme vitiate unconsecrated subvert pollute pervert impious foul deprave debauch worldly vulgar unsanctified unholy outrage open misdirect irreligious demoralize demoralise blue villainous venture use profanities towards unrighteous uninitiated unhygienic ungodly unclean taint sulphurous sully soil sinful seduce secularized scorn ruin risk prostitute overlook neglect

Topics profane topics

What do people use profane to talk about?
Social behavior Religion

Irreligion
Language and thought Communication Foolish talk

Obscenity
Social behavior

Religion

  • What words refer to those areas of life outside of religion?
    secular profane

Conjugation profane conjugation

How do you conjugate profane?

profane · verb

Examples profane examples

How do I use profane in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The profane language used on network television makes many parents with young children not want to subscribe to cable.

Movie subtitles

It suggests profane vanity.
Must be awful for you. listening to all this sailor talk day and night. so crass and profane, isn't it?
Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.
I have long dreamed of such a kind of man, so surfeit-swelled, so old and so profane.
We should profane the service of the dead to sing a requiem and such rest to her as to peace-parted souls.
Is this profane and shameless?
Yet, he too, profane Pharaoh with his touch.
I can't profane this sacred place!
I know that our love is sacred, the others were profane.
You mix sacred and profane love too casually.
Don't profane the music.
We should profane the service to sing a requiem, and such rest to her, as to peace-parted souls.
You profane Holy Writ.
Then God himself is profane. It was He who created man in His own image.
Don't profane his name with your dirty lips.
Sacred and profane.
Know then that the great hall of Baskervilles. was once held by Sir Hugo of that name. a wild, profane, and godless man.
Then God himself is profane.
This is love profane. Must be sin in me that so confounds my senses.
But I was talking about something more profane.
Do your work. Don't be profane and don't listen to profanity.
You mix sacred and profane love too casually. Isn't that so?
What profane wretch art thou? I am one, sir, that come to tell you that your daughter and the Moor are now making a beast with two backs.
Is he not a most profane and liberal counselor?
Mrs. Lee, you have a most profane way of speaking.
Profane not the temple.
You would dare profane, with your irreverent tongue, the great secret?
HIERONYMOUS: You profane the sacred stone.
You profane the sacred stone!
I said it was profane.
A profane word escaped me.
I'll profane you in a minute.

News and current affairs

But that sacred does not exist without the profane.
Its forces have demolished Sufi shrines, Shia mosques, Christian churches, and ancient monuments they consider to be remnants of a corrupt and profane past.

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