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profaning


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Profane  \Pro*fane"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Profaned};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Profaning}.]  [L.  profanare:  cf  F.  profaner.  See 
  {Profane},  a.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  The  priests  in  the  temple  profane  the  sabbath. 
  --Matt.  xii. 
  5. 
 
  2.  To  put  to  a  wrong  or  unworthy  use  to  make  a  base 
  employment  of  to  debase;  to  abuse;  to  defile. 
 
  So  idly  to  profane  the  precious  time.  --Shak. 




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