Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Profaning or desecrating; destructive to sacred character or nature; apt to produce irreverence, contempt, or the like.

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  • adjective profaning or tending to desecrate

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Examples

  • Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantaisie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught; but she was not to be overlooked, nor baulked of her mortal privileges.

    Villette 2003

  • Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantaisie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught; but she was not to be overlooked, nor baulked of her mortal privileges.

    Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835

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