Crossword-Solution: PROFANE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Profane | a. | Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. |
| Profane | a. | Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. |
| Profane | a. | Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. |
| Profane | a. | Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue. |
| Profane | a. | To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God. |
| Profane | a. | To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROFANE (5)
But now some godless man, ’Tis rumored, here abides; The precincts through I scan, Yet wot not where he hides, The wretch profane! I search and search in vain.
The accident of a broken leg brought a profane and ribald soldier under religious influences and furnished him a new ideal.
Nor were they less careful to prevent any unhallowed layman from touching the pall, which, having been that used at the funeral of Saint Edmund, was liable to be desecrated, if handled by the profane.
When I reflected that this marvellous electric agent, after having afforded motion, heat, and light to the _Nautilus_, still protected her from outward attack, and transformed her into an ark of safety which no profane hand might touch without being thunderstricken, my admiration was unbounded, and from the structure it extended to the engineer who had called it into existence.
Don’t profane—don’t insult—the memory of my innocent son.” “I speak the simple truth,” Newman declared, “and I speak it for a purpose.
Quotes with PROFANE (3)
WE do try to eat," Raoul called back to her [Kel]. I go all faint if I don't get fed regularly. Only think of the disgrace to the King's Own if I fell from the saddle.""But there was that time in Fanwood," a voice behind them said." That wedding in Tameran," added the blonde Sergeant Osbern, riding a horse-length behind Kel." Don't forget when what's-his-name, with the army, retired," yelled a third." Silence, insubordinate curs!" cried Raoul. "Do not sully my new squire's ea…
In love with myself, that is what people say I am. It doesn’t surprise me, for how could they notice that I can love when I love only you; how could anyone else suspect it when I love only you? In love with myself. Why? Because I’m in love with you, because it is you I love, you alone, and all that truly belongs to you, and it is thus I love myself, because this, my self, belongs to you, so that if I ceased loving you I would cease loving myself. What then is, in the eyes of …
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, Universal, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (2003–2025).