There it is--I make you wince: to speak of it is to profane it.
Oh," he returned after an instant and without profane mirth, "that seems to me the best thing for any one.
Still it was a decided relief to find myself comfortably installed with my material body, or rupa, in the house of a Thibetan brother on that sacred soil which has for so many centuries remained unpolluted by a profane foot.
The guide who showed me the Sepulchre was not particularly noisy or profane or palpably mercenary; he was rather more than less sympathetic than the same sort of man who might have shown me Westminster Abbey or Stratford-on-Avon.
Going down from Jerusalem to Jericho I was more than once moved by a flippant and possibly profane memory of the swine that rushed down a steep place into the sea.
Pictures of mysterious events never meant for the public gaze now display their secrets in the light of the sun, and reveal to the eyes of the profane the supernatural events which preceded the birth of the king.
I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets.
This prelate was a wretched divine, more familiar with the light of profane authors, than with that of the fathers of the Church.
He flatly refused, with a good deal of impertinence, using some profane language learned in camp.
I expect to find the people, though they are all members, will become profane immediately.
Indeed, he who thinks that solid substances can fall from heaven is rightly accounted profane and mad.
Sir Henry Savile stood at the head of these: we may justly deem him the most learned Englishman, in profane literature, of the reign of Elizabeth.
The profane authors, except some relating to French history, were in general of little value in our sight.
In the fifth and sixth books he comes to particular epochs, determining in both many important dates in profane and sacred history.
The mysteries which had delighted the Parisians for a century and a half were suddenly forbidden by the parliament as indecent and profanein 1548.
The prejudice of the church against profane authors had by no means wholly worn away: much less had they an exclusive possession of the grammar-schools, most of the books taught in which were modern.
In the last decennium of the century, the Ecclesiastical Polity of Hooker is a monument of real learning, in profane as well as theological antiquity.
He had also to allege, that the fruits of the Reformation had by no means shown themselves in a more virtuous conduct; and that many heated enthusiasts were depreciating both all profane studies, and all assistance of learning in theology.
Aurispa tells Ambrogio Traversari, that he found they cared little about profane literature.
I will not assert that no other was extensively known even for profane learning: in our own biographical records several may be found, at least esteemed at home.
With these words he sprung from the fence on the orchard side, and made his way to the hill behind the Walton residence, leaving the old man mumbling and muttering in a very profane manner.
To this he replied, that he was somewhat in the condition of a very profane youth who had just got religion at a backwoods camp-meeting.
Upon the return of the member to Washington, I expressed to him my surprise at a conversion which, in suddenness and power, had possibly but one parallel in either sacred or profane history.
I thought of the measure with which I had been meting to him when Brother Robinson was here last Thursday, and told me that a poor little quotation I was making from the Georgics savoured of vain babbling and profane heathenism.
Last Sabbath evening he led us away into talk on profane subjects ill befitting the day.
I was in the churchyard with eighteen companions, fifteen men and three women, dancing, and singing profane songs to such a degree that I interrupted the priest, and our voices resounded amid the sacred solemnity of the mass.
The rough soldiers were never rough or profane in her presence, and their kindly sympathy often touched me.
Do not use profane language, Conrad, in your mother's presence.
It was too profane for many of them to touch; and they who discarded it, discarded the cause also.
Music, dancing, rioting, drunkenness, and profane swearing, were kept up from night to night.
Never suffer thyself to use vulgar or profane language.
Finding that he could not gain his object by deception, he forgot to sustain the quiet character he had assumed, but gave vent to his anger in a great deal of violent and profane language.
One might not unjustly accuse this speaker of neglecting the moral difference between the profane whose triumph and joy he declares to be short, and the good man whose career is full of years and honour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profane" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
