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  • noun Plural form of profanation.

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Examples

  • 'profanations', 11 a.m. CMI Prior General's House, Kakkanad: National seminar on vision and challenges of priesthood,

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • What does change are the human profanations of his Word.

    TEXAS FAITH: Changing religions | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • β€œThe court declares the accused duly attainted and convicted of superstitions, impieties, sacrileges, profanations, and poisonings.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The sentence does not state that the death of the cattle was caused by profanations, but by poison.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • These horrible profanations are found in several places in the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It was then that you took body in my imagination and that my mind seized on a definite form of you for all its adorations β€” for its profanations, too.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • It was because of this reverence that, in those moments in which people run counter to their natural inclinations, the two girls had been able to find an insane pleasure in the profanations which have already been narrated.

    The Captive 2003

  • And, what is more, the profanations had become rarefied until they disappeared altogether, in proportion as their morbid carnal relations, that troubled, smouldering fire, had given place to the flame of a pure and lofty friendship.

    The Captive 2003

  • During Diocletian's persecution, the provincial council of Eliberis in Spain decreed, that there should be no paintings on the walls of churches: its 36th canon was evidently intended to save sacred pictures from the profanations perpetrated by the pagans.

    The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

  • The distinguished missionary and pilgrim D. Casto Gonzalez recounts other disorders of the Greeks during Holy Week, and profanations of the most holy sanctuaries of Palestine.

    The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs

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