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adj. Marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred.

adj. Nonreligious in subject matter, form, or use; secular: sacred and profane music.

adj. Not admitted into a body of secret knowledge or ritual; uninitiated.

adj. Vulgar; coarse.

v. To treat with irreverence: profane the name of God.

v. To put to an improper, unworthy, or degrading use; abuse.

adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.

adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.

adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.

n. A person or thing that is profane.

n. A person not a Mason.

v. To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.

v. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

adj. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired.

adj. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.

adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.

v. To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute

v. To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

Not sacred, or not devoted to sacred purposes; not possessing any peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; secular: as, a profane place; profane history (that is, history other than Biblical); profane authors.

Irreverent toward God or holy things; speaking or spoken, acting or acted, in manifest or implied contempt of sacred things; blasphemous: as, profane language; profane swearing.

Not initiated into certain religious rites; hence, of less dignity or standing; inferior; common.

Synonyms Temporal, unhallowed, unholy.

Impious, Atheistic, etc. (see irreligious); irreverent, sacrilegious.

To treat as if not sacred or deserving reverence; violate, as anything sacred; treat with irreverence, impiety, or contempt; pollute; desecrate.

To put to a wrong use; employ basely or unworthily.

To make known; make common: said of something confined to an initiated few.

To speak or behave blasphemously or profanely.

adj. not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled

adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

adj. characterized by profanity or cursing

v. violate the sacred character of a place or language

adj. not concerned with or devoted to religion

"The word profane comes from the Latin profanus which literally means from the temple."

unhallowed    unholy    irreverent    dirty    lay    laic    secular    profanatory   

profaned    profanes    profaning   

assault    assail    attack    Seton   

profanity    profanation   

ungodly    temporal    unhallowed    irreligious    impious    godless    irreverent    unsanctified    worldly    secular   

Alane    Aquitaine    Ayn    Bahrain    Biscayne    Blaine    Cain    Chain    Champagne    Champaign   

obscene    blasphemous    lewd    licentious    vulgar    immoral    indelicate    barbarous    improper    sinful