profanation

• “Atherton, “may differ essentially, and what you term profanation may to me seem perfectly harmless; but, be that as it will, my sojourn here has been so brief, that I do not feel accountable for a slight breach of local regulations, of which I was entirely ignorant.””

  A Peep at the Pilgrims in Sixteen Hundred Thirty-Six

• “Great care is alwavs taken that the bones may be burned, as it would be con - sidered a profanation were the dogs permitted to touch them.”

  Internet Archive: The geographical and historical dictionary of America and the West Indies : containing an entire translation of the Spanish work of Colonel Don Antonio de Alcedo...with large additions and compilations from modern voyages and travels, and from original and authentic information

• “Confucius of the revolution, was a kind of profanation of the holy fire, well calculated to revive the languid rage, and extinguish the small remains of humanity yet left among the people.”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners

• “What passionate avowals of her affection she made, so sweet, so thrilling, that it would be a kind of profanation to write them.”

  A Daughter of Fife

• “That quiet and easily satisfied people, whose existence you might forget except when they testify their happiness by their shouts; noisy without a thought of sedition; whose only care is to shun poverty without amassing wealth; lowly in fortune but rich in temper -- it is a kind of profanation to rob such people as these.”

  The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator

• “The corruption of a notorious courtier would have made no impression: the King had already been overwhelmed with such accusations, and they had lost their effect: but to have seduced the virtuous Mirabeau, the very Confucius of the revolution, was a kind of profanation of the holy fire, well calculated to revive the languid rage, and extinguish the small remains of humanity yet left among the people.”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795

• “This is the worst kind of profanation because holy things are mixed by them with profane to the point where they cannot be separated.”

  Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence

• “Those who have confirmed themselves by this kind of profanation against the Divine and against the Word and thus against the spiritual things of the Word, sit in outer darkness dumb, unable to speak, wanting to babble pious and holy things as they did in the world, but unable to do so.”

  Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence

• “_ The Lord does this lest man fall into that most serious kind of profanation of which we have treated in this chapter.”

  Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence

• “[7] The seventh kind of profanation is committed by those who first acknowledge and live by divine truths and then recede from them and deny them.”

  Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence

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