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Word: profane
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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
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Noun:
- A person or thing that is profane.
- freemasonry A person not a Mason.
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Verb:
- transitive To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
- transitive 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.
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