profaner

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At that moment he appeared to himself in the light of a profaner, although he was obeying generous and humane instincts.

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  1. One who profanes, or who by words or actions treats sacred things with irreverence; a user of profane language. There are a lighter ludicrous sort of profaners, who use Scripture to furnish out their jests. Government of the Tongue.
  2. A polluter; a defiler. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel. Shak., R. and J., i. 1. 89.

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  • Her claim to fame is that she is a potty mouthed profaner of God. —  Althouse
  • At that moment he appeared to himself in the light of a profaner, although he was obeying generous and humane instincts. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • If every mortal who spoke ill of them was to be pursued what leisure for dignified seclusion would remain If, however," continued the dispassionate Being, "the profaner is left to himself he will, sooner or later, in the ordinary course of human intelligence, become involved in some disaster of his own contriving. —  Kai Lung's Golden Hours
  • Where no profaner eye may look, —  L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
  • General of the Jesuits, or Robespierre, the profaner of the sanctuary, —  Balzac
 

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