Profane is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROFANE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to treat with irreverence or insult
• treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect
• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
• violate the sacred character of a place or language
• treat (something sacred) irreverently, desecrate
ADJECTIVE:
• not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular
• (of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge
• (of a person or their behaviour) not respectful of religious practice; irreverent
• (of language) blasphemous or obscene.
• showing disrespect for religion or holy things
• 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.
• Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
• Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
• Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
• 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.
• To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
• characterized by profanity or cursing
• not concerned with or devoted to religion
• not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
• grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to treat with irreverence or abuse

Words related to PROFANE

profanation16 profanatory19 profaned14 profanely17 profaneness16 profaner13 profaners14 profanes13 profaning15

Words that contain PROFANE

profaned14 profaner13 profanes13 profanely17 profaners14 unprofaned16 profaneness16 profanenesses18

How to use PROFANE in a sentence

• Never have I heard such a medley of profane nonsense.
• Music, dancing, rioting, drunkenness, and profane swearing, were kept up from night to night.
• He hath severed you from the mass of the profane world, and picked you out to be jewels for himself.
• And he restrained himself from being still more profane only lest his wrath should awaken inconvenient suspicions.
• On the succeeding Sundays the spirit of rebellion was breathed from the pulpit in language yet more intemperate, and often profane and obscene.
• Putting them into words seems impertinent, profane.
• This house hath been a scene of nothing else But atheist riot and profane excess, Since my old master quitted all his rights here.
• Never suffer thyself to use vulgar or profane language.
• Profane not my holy name, that I may be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel.
• These contentions, sacred and profane, did not touch the vital issue.
• If you are in a car with a profane drunkard, you do not copy his actions, or, if obliged to address him, adopt his style of language.
• The watch below, separated from him only by a thin partition, expressed profane disapproval of shipping such a passenger.
• They assembled in the night, and they guarded against the intrusion of false brethren and profane persons, spies who might cause their arrest.
• Truth concealed from the Profane preserved to the Elect by symbols, 810-u.
• During all this time I was never joined in profession of religion with any, being afraid both of professor and profane.
• This sole evidence of profane work attracted all the unoccupied to the miserable and evil-smelling dwelling.
• A few years later, two youths of seventeen were convicted at Abbeville for making some profane jokes.
• So saying, he struck with all his might a fine large burr, crushed it to pieces, and then jumped up, using at the same time profane and wicked words.
• If this latter was the truth then he was a very profane mule driver when he got mad.
• Sacred and profane authors employed him alternately.
• He is master of all that is worth knowing in sacred and profane literature.
• A Quaker-bookseller, according to these positions, cannot sell a profane or improper book.
• We acknowledge no human laws which profane that sacrament.

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