Profanation is valid Scrabble Word

Is profanation a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is profanation valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
16 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for PROFANATION in dictionary:

VERB:

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.
The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy.

NOUN:

the act or an instance of profaning
blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening

ADJECTIVE:

(of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge
(of language) blasphemous or obscene.
not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular
(of a person or their behaviour) not respectful of religious practice; irreverent
treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect

Words related to PROFANATION

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Words that contain PROFANATION

How to use PROFANATION in a sentence

A scream of wrath and agony at the possible profanation of the Holy of Holies rose from the multitude.
He is bound in honour and interest to vindicate His name from the abuse, His authority from the contempt, His holy ordinance from the profanation, which it doth infer.
He looked upon married life, with all its hallowed beauty, as a profanation for a priest.
The whole banquet is too civic and culinary, and the accompaniments altogether a profanation of that deep, abstracted, holy scene.
Christianity does not need them, and they are spared a daily profanation in the name of religion.
The physical scarcely entered into it, for such seemed profanation.
Chrysostom, that we find it completely in the blood of the Savior, or rather in our profanation of it every day.
But George Eliot has higher aims than ordinary novelists, and to her the transfer which we have suggested would appear as a profanation.
They suppose there is a certain veneration due to his old language, and that it is little less than profanation and sacrilege to alter it.
She had acquired that knowledge, which is the only valuable kind of chastity worth having, that night when she had been forced to commit that profanation.

His mother Helena made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to visit the spots where our blessed Lord lived and died, and to clear them from profanation.
His despotic authority was needed to tempt the young saint to such profanation.
Such conduct was a profanation to the memory of Isaac and Eliza Travers.
He did as he was bidden, but his profanation was punished with death.
It would be a profanation of the word to say that he loved her at first sight.
Indignant at this profanation of a tomb, the Khoja took a stout stick and made up his mind to chastise the intruder.
To read that letter before that odious porter seemed to him a profanation.
Looking back from the standpoint she had now gained, it seemed so pitifully mean and paltry, a profanation of the whole inner, hidden meaning of love.
They felt it to be a profanation thus to expose the secluded domestic and religious life of the children of Israel.
To divulge the traditions relative to this altar would, it seems, be an high profanation.
We start back in horror, as if in the act of profanation.
The Continental opinion which at that time often reckoned the American novelist as equal, if not superior to his British contemporary, seemed to men here like a profanation.
What at first had seemed profanation, now breathed of holy association.
If we could administer an oath to a native, the profanation of which would fill him with equal horror, we should find that he would speak the truth.
Then, why? For love? Profanation! There could be no love there.
It is an impious profanation of our flag of freedom to make it the symbol of absolutism on any soil.
If it be obstinate in resistance, Judea is not defiled, but if it be taken the whole land shall lie waste and God will require the profanation of it at our mouth.
You are a profanation of the uniform of the United States.
I have more than once been tempted to include it in this volume, but on second thoughts I have felt that to do so would be an act of profanation.
Such a supernatural mechanism seems to an independent and uncowed nature a profanation and an imposture.
It would be a profanation to touch with a tool the stones which construct the sacred altar of peace.
The natives have a superstition that the eruption of the extinct Tarawera was caused by the profanation of foreign footsteps.
The fate that awaited it would have justified the profanation.
That is not only no marriage, it is a blasphemous profanation of a holy rite.

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