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  • adjective superlative form of profane: most profane.

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Examples

  • He has abused our highest Courts, he has spoken in the profanest language of our legislators, he has abused our best and most venerable citizens, calling them liars and scoundrels, he has shamefully abused our president, thereby undermining the dignity of the office, how can we expect our foreign born citizens to respect our institutions when an ex-President circumtravels the Union telling everybody that those honorable men at Chicago were thieves and crooks.

    The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt Oliver Remey

  • Little they know of Rabelais who call him a lewd buffoon -- the profanest of mountebanks.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Jacob in ill part, saying, "Thou profanest what is holy when thou callest Esau lord."

    The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Louis Ginzberg 1913

  • Eunomius, and their followers delighted to shock all sober feeling by the harshest and profanest declarations of it.

    The Arian Controversy Henry Melvill Gwatkin 1880

  • Innocently employed, in a company of she-profligates, listening to Killigrew's ribald jokes -- Killigrew, the profanest of them all, who can turn the greatest calamity this city ever suffered to horseplay and jeering.

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

  • According to his account, you are one of the profanest of the profane.

    The Drummer Boy 1871

  • It is pleasant to know that, in sympathy with our captain, no man of his company profaned God's holy name in his audience; and that to please him, the profanest waited cheerfully upon the evening service.

    Capt. Thomas E. King; or, A word to the army and the country Joseph Clay 1864

  • The profanest blasphemous speeches need not have been softened down, as, in proportion to the impiety of the provocation, increases the poetical probability of the final punishment.

    Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

  • [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.] 'What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • [Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition.] 'What art thou, Presumptuous, who profanest

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

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