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- noun Plural form of
profaner .
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Examples
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There are no set disciplinary measures for offenders, but habitual profaners will be summoned by their managers to discuss cleaning up their language.
George Carlin Never Would've Cut It at the New Goldman Sachs 2010
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The Athenian people, recalling these and other traditions of the tyrants which had sunk deep into their minds, were suspicious and savage against the supposed profaners of the mysteries; the whole affair seemed to them to indicate some conspiracy aiming at oligarchy or tyranny.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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They remind us forcefully that Islam, no less than Christianity, Judaism and other religions, is threatened and potentially degraded by these profaners who invoke Gods name to kill indiscriminately.
Statement from American Scholars Supporting the U.S. Government's War on Terrorism 1994
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The Sacred War still lingered, although the Phocians desired peace; but the revengeful spirit of the Thebans was not allayed, and Philip was again urged to crush the profaners of the national religion.
Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson
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"My brethren," asked he, "ought we not to look upon our prisoners as profaners of holy places, and serve them in secret and before God as once the admirable Judith served Holofernes?"
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The mercenary profaners of the temple he cast out; the blind and lame he healed.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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Some have been destroyed, but most still remain as an awful example to impious Sabbath profaners.
Legend Land, Vol. 1 Being a collection of some of the Old Tales told in those Western Parts of Britain served by The Great Western Railway. George Basil Barham
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The civil magistrates were also to punish all profaners of the Sabbath, all contemners of the ministry, all disturbers of public worship, and to proceed "against schismatic or obstinately corrupt churches."
The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene
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It rose up against us, as though pronouncing a malediction upon the intruders, upon the profaners of those mysteries that, in the inmost recesses of the jungle, great Mother Nature celebrates during the night.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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Pymalion, because mother Nature does not refuse food to her children even if they are profaners of that wonderful temple of her fecundity -- it is right that I should now draw your attention to two great friends of travellers in the forest.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Giovanni Battista Cerruti 1882
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