Crossword-Solution: PROFANATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Profanation | v. t. | The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God. |
| Profanation | v. t. | The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “PROFANATION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| desecration of the Holy Sabbath | 1 answer |
| BLASPHEMOUS BEHAVIOR | 11 answers |
| INSULTING language | 12 answers |
| Sacrilege | 18 answers |
| cussing | 18 answers |
| Irreverence | 20 answers |
| vulgarism | 22 answers |
| swearing | 22 answers |
| profanity | 25 answers |
| blasphemy | 26 answers |
| cursing | 28 answers |
| expletive | 34 answers |
| Impiety | 34 answers |
| Heresy | 40 answers |
| Detestation | 43 answers |
| Disrespect | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with PROFANATION (5)
She was determined to assert her independence, and if she stooped to fib about the Hepburn picnic it was chiefly from the secretive instinct that made her dread the profanation of her happiness.
Roderick declared that he would go nowhere else; that, after the Juno, it was a profanation to look at anything but sky and trees.
With what I had been told, it did not take much art to guess that the great stone circle of our Lord the Sun was their mark, and it grieved me to think of how many venerable centuries that great fane had upreared before the weather and the earth tremors, without such profanation as it would witness to-day.
Sincerity! It seems like a profanation of the word to write it in connection with such a monster, so asked him point-blank:-- “Why may I not go to-night?” “Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission.” “But I would walk with pleasure.
The old soldier, (at least, this was my guess,) brave in all else, had not the courage to face the tourists’ profanation of such sacred scenes.
Quotes with PROFANATION (3)
Let me, however, although no verbal critic, protest against the profanation of the word friend. In this my history I must be honest, make a distinction between the oriental diamond and its worthless imitation of paste, and separate the grain from the chaff — gossamer words, that weigh nothing, from substantial realities heavier than gold.
There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left and right, so as to appear sympathetic. Just look at the sad spectacle of some Eucharistic celebrations. ... Why so much frivolousness and worldliness at the moment of the Holy Sacrifice? Why so much profanation and superficiality, given the extraordinary priestly grace that renders us able to make the Body and Blood of Christ substantially present by the invocation of the Spir…
Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation.