Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a profane manner; with irreverence to sacred things or names; impiously; with abuse or contempt for anything venerable: as, to speak profanely of God or sacred things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a profane manner.
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- adverb In a
profane manner,irreverently , with markeddisrespect for thesacred .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with curses
- adverb in an irreverent or profane manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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You must remember, not to use the word profanely, that we are dealing really with a peculiar people.
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And now he had been paid back in his own coin, and lay grovelling in the mud, and calling profanely on the Lord, whose mercy such men always cry for in their trouble, if they never ask it for their sins.
Frances Kane's Fortune L. T. Meade 1884
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And now he had been paid back in his own coin, and lay grovelling in the mud, and calling profanely on the Lord, Whose mercy such men always cry for in their trouble, if they never ask it for their sins.
Melchior's Dream and Other Tales Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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It would madden any _man_ to hear his mother's name profanely used; it made John
Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Jews, that were exorcists, who made use of Christ's name profanely and wickedly in their diabolical enchantments, but were made to pay dearly for their presumption.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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When he filled a pan with dirt, he ran down the hill to wash it; nor could he forbear running up the hill again, panting and stumbling profanely, to refill the pan.
All Gold Canon 2010
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Ryan ended up on the NFL's naughty list last month, getting fined $75,000 for profanely telling a fan--who said Bill Belichick was a better coach--to shut up.
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Ryan profanely told the fan to shut up, and the run-in was posted on YouTube.
The Cost of Yelling at a Fan: $75,000 Chris Herring 2011
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When he filled a pan with dirt, he ran down the hill to wash it; nor could he forbear running up the hill again, panting and stumbling profanely, to refill the pan.
All Gold Cañon 2010
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In the segment, Mr. Cai tells CCTV that a slew of harassing phone calls and text messages led him to discover postings about him on Tieba, an online forum operated by Baidu, where people opposed to his views on public holidays were ridiculing him, sometimes profanely.
China TV Steps Up Attack on Baidu Loretta Chao 2011
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