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Profaner  n.  One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles what is holy; one who uses profane language.





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"Profaner" Quotes from Famous Books



... or walnut settings. I would recommend this style of work to the consideration of our decorators. It is interesting to find in an old catalogue at Hampton Court, how pictures of sacred subjects were thus decently veiled, in the profaner moments ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford
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... for pleasure vain and cruel That which has long been mine, Nor overheap with briefly burning fuel A fire of flame divine, Nor yield the key for life's profaner voices ...
— Poems: New and Old • Henry Newbolt
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... the Cardinal, "that for the multitude of men there are two watchwords of war—Liberty and Religion. If Religion begins to fail, we must employ the profaner word. 'Up with the Banner of the Church—and down with the tyrants!' We will proclaim equal laws and free government; (In correcting the pages of this work, in the year 1847...strange coincidences between the ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
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