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Definition of Profaning
1. profane [v] - See also: profane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profaning
Literary usage of Profaning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts by George Francis Dow (1914)
"Jacob Knight, Ephraim Hall, Jasper Griffin and Peeter Jenkins, for profaning the
Lord's day by laboring about brick, were fined. If Mr. William Norton was ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Kan's phrase about the Christian profaning in the amphitheatre the lips with
which he had spoken Amen to greet the All-Holy (De Spect., xxv). ..."
3. Individual Training in Our Colleges by Clarence Frank Birdseye (1907)
"Entrance requirements. Christ at the bottom. Two Scripture readings daily.
profaning God's name, etc. Redeeming the time. ..."
4. The National Preacher (1839)
"Yet ye briny more wrath upon Israel, by profaning the Sabbath. ALMOST a century
had elapsed, after the decree of Cyrus authorizing the captive Jews in ..."
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