Crossword-Solution: PROFANES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Desecrates | 1 answer |
| Treats irreverently. | 1 answer |
| Violates. | 2 answers |
| Defiles | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PROFANES (5)
Proceed no farther with him; for I heard our minister say (and he never profanes his calling) that the devil had run away with his brains.
The critical spectators thought that the dancing of the Majorcans was not any gayer than their singing, which was not gay at all, and that their boleros had "la gravite des ancetres, et point de ces graces profanes qu'on admire en Andalousie." Much of the music of these islanders was rather interesting than pleasing to their visitors.
HARLEY.--"If I utter a word that profanes one of your delusions, you shake your head and are incredulous.
HARLEY.--“If I utter a word that profanes one of your delusions, you shake your head and are incredulous.
Indeed, it may be taken once for all as the truth, that Shakspeare, in the absolute universality of his genius, always reverences whatever arises out of our moral nature; he never profanes his muse with a contemptuous reasoning away of the genuine and general, however unaccountable, feelings of mankind.
Quotes with PROFANES (2)
Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of genius makes an ominous impression on them, for there exists a deep gulf between genius and the teaching profession. Anyone with a touch of genius seems to his teachers a freak from the very first. As far as teachers are concerned, they define young geniuses as those who are bad, disrespectful, smoke at fourteen, fall in love at fift…
When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart The charm of Sympathy; her mutual wail How soothing! never can her warm tears fail To balm our bleeding grief's severest smart; Nor wholly vain feign'd Pity's solemn art, Tho' we should penetrate her sable veil. Concern, e'en known to be assum'd, our pains Respecting, kinder welcome far acquires Than cold Neglect, or Mirth that Grief profanes. T…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1965–2008).