Then, addressing himself to these cannibals as if they were heroes whose courage and exploits he praised, he added, in speaking of the profaned corpse of the Princess de Lamballe: "The remains you have there are the property of all.
I stolen God's honor, His nameprofaned with vile oaths, his sabbaths violated, his word despised!
He will not always let His name be so profaned and exposed to reproach and execration.
From the beams of the roofless churches gibbets were erected for those who had profaned the sanctuaries of the Roman Catholics.
This ship shall not be profaned by such impiety,' said I.
But, alas, under the profaned columns a crowd of people passes, with Baedekers in their hands, the same people that one sees here everywhere, the same world as frequents Nice and the Riviera.
The other churches of the city were profaned by similar outrages; and, during at least four months, Alexandria was exposed to the insults of a licentious army, stimulated by the ecclesiastics of a hostile faction.
The altar was deserted, the oracle had been reduced to silence, and the holy ground was profaned by the introduction of Christian and funereal rites.
But the edict of Hadrian was renewed and enforced; and they viewed from afar the walls of the holy city, which were profaned in their eyes by the triumph of the cross and the devotion of the Christians.
Sometimes they rudely disturbed the festivals, and profaned the temples of Paganism, with the design of exciting the most zealous of the idolaters to revenge the insulted honor of their gods.
This Feast of the Dedication had been appointed by Judas Maccabeus, in remembrance of the cleansing of the temple, and devoting it again to the proper worship of God, after it had been profaned by the heathen.
Roman soldier, who cared nothing for the religion of the Jews, and did not look upon the temple as a holy place, profaned it in some way, and thus made the Jews very angry.
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
But I had pity for mine holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, whither they went.
Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Peter preached his first sermons in Jerusalem, but he did not select it as his See; and Jerusalem is today a Mahometan city, with its sacred places profaned by the foot of the Mussulman.
Alcibiades was publicly accused of havingprofaned and divulged the Eleusinian mysteries.
Pompey demolished the fortifications of the city, and exacted tribute, but spared the treasures of the temple which he profaned by his heathen presence.
First accusation of Alkibiadês, of having profaned and divulged the Eleusinian mysteries.
His life was endangered by the caprice of the emperor; and his dignity was profaned by a second colleague, who had rowed in the galleys.
He has profaned the sacrament of marriage and handed it over to the civil courts.
I profaned my remembrances of Mary in the company of women who had reached the lowest depths of degradation.
Horrible imaginings of deformity possessed my brain, and profaned all that was purest and dearest in my recollections of Miss Dunross.
In Juvenal's time the natural rock had been encased in marble, and the hallowed spot was profaned by gangs of poor Jews, who were suffered to squat, like gypsies, in the grove.
He profaned his sanctity if he even touched the ground with his foot.
This rule was observed by the supreme pontiff of the Zapotecs in Mexico; he profaned his sanctity if he so much as touched the ground with his foot.
There was one point on which she dared not even think aloud, and which she would have thoughtprofaned by speaking of it to others.
If the matter is noised about, she will think it profaned by the touch of others, and it will thus, in her opinion, lose its greatest charm.
Look at the profaned sanctuaries and outraged convents on which these proud English have waxen fat, and say whether a heavy retribution be not due to them.
They profaned the temples, violated conscience, blasphemed the God of the faithful, parodied the ceremonies, cast to the winds the pious symbols of worship, and persecuted the ministers of religion.
The lovely little girl, pure in instinct, ignorant in mind, is misled and profaned by man abusing her confidence.
The name of the Prince of Peace has beenprofaned by all kinds of injustice toward the Gentile whom he said he came to save.
But I believe neither he nor her father had one compunctious misgiving as to their having profaned the holiness of marriage by such an union.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profaned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
