Definition of profane in English:

profane

adjective prəˈfeɪnprəˈfeɪn

1Not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular.
世俗的
a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane
一次同时涉及神圣和世俗话题的讲话。
Example sentencesExamples
- Is Babel wholly profane and the Bible wholly holy?
- I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane.
- He joined me from the cabin, offering a beer and various kinds of counsel, profane wisdom of the world.
- He was as interested in the sacred as in the profane, in devotion and deviation alike.
- Inscribing the most sacred symbol on something profane and worldly, such as money, works against the religious canons.
- The culture is not wholly profane, but it has gifts to offer and wounds to heal.
- We are by nature incurably drawn to ritual in the realms of both the sacred and the profane.
- In most writings and interviews, the profane world is interpreted as a place of probation and is explained as an illusion or a bridge to other worlds.
- Among the Jews, all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand, they regard as permissible what seems to us immoral…
- It is convenient to reserve significant parts of the world as profane, and even ‘dirty,’ in order to preserve our ability to act in them without scruple.
- Sin and damnation are downplayed, and the distinctions between heaven and earth, the profane and the sacred, God's grace and our efforts tend to be fudged.
- The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors.
- Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one.
- Without considering arguments to the contrary, he asserts that a hierarchical ordering of reality and a division between the sacred and the profane are essential to the religious worldview.
- In the name of tradition, authorities lay claim to the power to manage with mantras of expansive truth and clarity seldom attained in the profane world of experimental science.
- Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth.
- Didn't the Buddha divide people into Aryans and the profane essentially saying that those who are Aryan follow the light and those who are profane follow the evil one?
- As Mark Taylor puts it, ‘the death of God is not a simple negation but a complex process in which the divine becomes incarnate when the profane is grasped as sacred’.
- Again, the composer suggests the reconciliation of sacred and profane, the religious and the sensual.
- He says that we largely live in profane space now, and the best we can do is create ‘ceremonies’ that give the appearance of sacred space but not the reality.
Synonyms
secular, lay, non-religious, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly
unsanctified, unconsecrated, unhallowed
rare laic
1. 1.1 (of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge.
  （人）不谙宗教仪式的，未受秘传的
  he was an agnostic, a profane man
  他是个不可知论者，一个俗人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Milton reads as a blanket permission to Christians to divorce a heretical or idolatrous or grossly profane spouse.
  The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself.
  Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him.
  For the profane audience, these meanings remain hidden.
  This is a very profane interpretation and shows a huge misunderstanding of the canon.
2(of a person or their behaviour) not respectful of religious practice; irreverent.
（人或其行为）渎神的，亵渎的，不敬神的
a profane person might be tempted to violate the tomb
不敬神的人可能会禁不住诱惑去盗挖坟墓。
Example sentencesExamples
- These are obscene, indeed profane, images, though not nearly as obscene as the human actions they document.
- The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture.
- A profane act demeans both the perpetrator and the one who is acted upon by disrespecting the Divine Force residing in each.
- If at that time humans were any less perverse, selfish, materialistic, profane, etc., than they had ever been, this should come as a great shock to all social historians.
- The questions can be completely anonymous and we encourage you to challenge the boundaries of the profane, the indecent and the naughty.
- He was easily the smartest, funniest, most annoying and most profane man I've been around.
- It may be said that this movie is crude, profane, and even obscene at times - but so is war.
- That means demanding that they answer for their lies, hypocrisy and profane behavior, just as much as we must answer for ours.
- Now after the accident, when it became apparent that he had changed, he's described as having become profane, irreverent, not showing much deference for his fellows.
- As a Pagan I consider these things sacred, so to me this is truly profane behavior.
Synonyms
irreverent, ungodly, godless, impious, disrespectful, irreligious, unbelieving, disbelieving, sacrilegious, idolatrous
1. 2.1 (of language) blasphemous or obscene.
  （语言）不敬神的，污秽的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Second, on an objective standard, Paul was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating.
  California Congressman Doug Ose is sponsoring a bill that would require the FCC to define any use of eight dirty words as profane.
  Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor.
  However, in court, Erin's surly manner and profane vocabulary do not endear her to the jury, which finds in the defendant's favor.
  A. We strongly encourage that you refrain from any profane or indecent language.
  My favorite curse word, unlike the favorite curse word of most of my guests, is not obscene, it's not scatological, it's profane.
  Thirty years after Cohen, there's no excuse for police departments to have their officers arrest people for carrying allegedly profane signs in public.
  Rizzo's language, which was hilariously profane, got cleaned up in print.
  All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances.
  Maybe we ought to have flashmobs where people gather to recite profane poetry…
  The dialogue is quite profane, but it perfectly captures the mood of era.
  But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine.
  When two foremen told him to ‘control himself,’ he quickly ‘became abusive and used obscene and profane language to both of them.’
  Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public.
  Black and partner Kyle Gass form a tongue-in-cheek rock band spouting lyrics as funny as they are profane.
  I don't think I've gotten any more profane and offensive, lately, that I can see, and I tend to talk in much the same way as I always have, about much the same sort of things.
  The most profane swearer call refrain from his oaths, while in the presence of a person whom he fears, and to whom he knows it would be displeasing.
  The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power.
  The FCC, by law, must prohibit the utterance of ‘any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication.’
  And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not.
  Synonyms
  obscene, blasphemous, foul, vulgar, crude, filthy, dirty, smutty, coarse, rude, offensive, scurrilous, off colour, indecent, indecorous
  rare Fescennine, Cyprian

verb prəˈfeɪnprəˈfeɪn

[with object]

Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect.
亵渎；玷污
it was a serious matter to profane a tomb
亵渎坟墓是件很严重的事。
Example sentencesExamples
- This was particularly manifest in the way that the Sabbath was profaned and family worship neglected.
- When Elijah complained, ‘they have slain your prophets, they have profaned your altars and only I am left’, the Lord replied, ‘What are you doing here?
- Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God.
- By profaning the West's most sacred sites, by their bodily sacrifice, these new warriors hope to set in motion a war and thereby to create an impassible boundary between Islamic sacred space and the rest.
- Sellers take pride in their wealth and because of this, their holy places will be profaned.
- To have your religion distorted and ridiculed and then to have one of your culture's most deeply treasured expressions purposely profaned - well, it's not very pleasant.
- Paul warns the Corinthians that if they eat and drink in an unworthy manner, they will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
- Thomas, they railed, had profaned a sacred text.
- The mere presence of the US profanes those holy shrines.
- When the older man learns that Isaac plans to move to Israel and participate in the resettling of the land, he breaks out in anger and reproaches Isaac for profaning the sacred bequest of Israel.
- The thought came into his mind, as he was profaning the Lord's Day, that he must either be converted or sent to hell to be damned.
- I've received quite a few emails about the Darwin Fish, mostly to the effect that it takes a sacred Christian symbol and profanes it, and how would I like it if someone took a sacred Jewish symbol and profaned it.
- When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult, but threatens the fabric of international society.
- Mosques and churches have been profaned and desecrated by inebriated Israeli soldiers who see themselves as soldiers of David.
- All that was sacred has been profaned, as Marx put it, and it is not clear what, if anything, is sacred anymore.
- One of Christianity's holiest shrines was profaned by armed terrorists.
- Finally, of course, are those religious advocates who regard us as at best profaning the sacred, or at worst promoting the work of Satan.
- Muslims and Israelis both claim that the temple mount in Jerusalem as their own sacred space, and thus see the presence of the other there as profaning it.
- Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day.
- Does it matter if John Wayne has profaned the Prophet?
Synonyms
desecrate, violate, defile, treat with disrespect, debase, degrade, contaminate, pollute, taint

Derivatives

profanation

noun prɒfəˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌprɑfəˈneɪʃ(ə)n

It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others.
- This profanation may offend people of tradition, whether Jews or Christians.
- And it is your duty to the Sacrament - that It might not suffer profanation.
- He elevated acts of profanation or desecration to the status of epiphanies: singular mystical moments of Oneness with the All.

profanely

adverb prəˈfeɪnliprəˈfeɪnli

When I discovered what they were plotting, I made plain, concisely and profanely, that this gesture struck me as the antithesis of doing the right thing.
Example sentencesExamples
- The coffee itself is better than some, not as good as others, but profanely overpriced.
- One can treat a sidewalk profanely when they disrespect it by throwing their trash on to it, but they are not changing the sacred nature of the sidewalk.
- But this new Michael Collins is profanely funny and has lots of attitude.
- A young black man entered the car and began to rap loudly - profanely, arrogantly - with the usual wild gestures.

profaneness

noun prəˈfeɪnnəsprəˈfeɪnnəs

The most potent response to profaneness is to strive for more holiness.

profaner

noun

Ain't this is a great country - free bologna sandwiches for profaners!

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'heathen'): from Old French prophane, from Latin profanus 'outside the temple, not sacred', from pro- (from Latin pro 'before') + fanum 'temple'.

The early sense of this was ‘heathen’ from Latin profanus ‘outside the temple, not sacred’ from Latin pro- ‘before’ and fanum ‘temple’.

Rhymes

abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne

Definition of profane in US English:

profane

adjectiveprəˈfānprəˈfeɪn

1Relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious.
世俗的
a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane
一次同时涉及神圣和世俗话题的讲话。
Example sentencesExamples
- Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth.
- Sin and damnation are downplayed, and the distinctions between heaven and earth, the profane and the sacred, God's grace and our efforts tend to be fudged.
- The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors.
- We are by nature incurably drawn to ritual in the realms of both the sacred and the profane.
- Without considering arguments to the contrary, he asserts that a hierarchical ordering of reality and a division between the sacred and the profane are essential to the religious worldview.
- Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one.
- He was as interested in the sacred as in the profane, in devotion and deviation alike.
- The culture is not wholly profane, but it has gifts to offer and wounds to heal.
- He joined me from the cabin, offering a beer and various kinds of counsel, profane wisdom of the world.
- It is convenient to reserve significant parts of the world as profane, and even ‘dirty,’ in order to preserve our ability to act in them without scruple.
- Again, the composer suggests the reconciliation of sacred and profane, the religious and the sensual.
- In most writings and interviews, the profane world is interpreted as a place of probation and is explained as an illusion or a bridge to other worlds.
- Didn't the Buddha divide people into Aryans and the profane essentially saying that those who are Aryan follow the light and those who are profane follow the evil one?
- I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane.
- Among the Jews, all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand, they regard as permissible what seems to us immoral…
- Is Babel wholly profane and the Bible wholly holy?
- In the name of tradition, authorities lay claim to the power to manage with mantras of expansive truth and clarity seldom attained in the profane world of experimental science.
- Inscribing the most sacred symbol on something profane and worldly, such as money, works against the religious canons.
- He says that we largely live in profane space now, and the best we can do is create ‘ceremonies’ that give the appearance of sacred space but not the reality.
- As Mark Taylor puts it, ‘the death of God is not a simple negation but a complex process in which the divine becomes incarnate when the profane is grasped as sacred’.
Synonyms
secular, lay, non-religious, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly
1. 1.1 (of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge.
  （人）不谙宗教仪式的，未受秘传的
  he was an agnostic, a profane man
  他是个不可知论者，一个俗人。
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is a very profane interpretation and shows a huge misunderstanding of the canon.
  The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself.
  Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him.
  Milton reads as a blanket permission to Christians to divorce a heretical or idolatrous or grossly profane spouse.
  For the profane audience, these meanings remain hidden.
2(of a person or their behavior) not respectful of orthodox religious practice; irreverent.
（人或其行为）渎神的，亵渎的，不敬神的
desecration of the temple by profane adolescents
Example sentencesExamples
- If at that time humans were any less perverse, selfish, materialistic, profane, etc., than they had ever been, this should come as a great shock to all social historians.
- It may be said that this movie is crude, profane, and even obscene at times - but so is war.
- The questions can be completely anonymous and we encourage you to challenge the boundaries of the profane, the indecent and the naughty.
- A profane act demeans both the perpetrator and the one who is acted upon by disrespecting the Divine Force residing in each.
- Now after the accident, when it became apparent that he had changed, he's described as having become profane, irreverent, not showing much deference for his fellows.
- As a Pagan I consider these things sacred, so to me this is truly profane behavior.
- The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture.
- He was easily the smartest, funniest, most annoying and most profane man I've been around.
- These are obscene, indeed profane, images, though not nearly as obscene as the human actions they document.
- That means demanding that they answer for their lies, hypocrisy and profane behavior, just as much as we must answer for ours.
Synonyms
irreverent, ungodly, godless, impious, disrespectful, irreligious, unbelieving, disbelieving, sacrilegious, idolatrous
1. 2.1 (of language) blasphemous or obscene.
  （语言）不敬神的，污秽的
  Example sentencesExamples
  But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine.
  I don't think I've gotten any more profane and offensive, lately, that I can see, and I tend to talk in much the same way as I always have, about much the same sort of things.
  California Congressman Doug Ose is sponsoring a bill that would require the FCC to define any use of eight dirty words as profane.
  The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power.
  Second, on an objective standard, Paul was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating.
  Thirty years after Cohen, there's no excuse for police departments to have their officers arrest people for carrying allegedly profane signs in public.
  Rizzo's language, which was hilariously profane, got cleaned up in print.
  Black and partner Kyle Gass form a tongue-in-cheek rock band spouting lyrics as funny as they are profane.
  Maybe we ought to have flashmobs where people gather to recite profane poetry…
  The FCC, by law, must prohibit the utterance of ‘any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication.’
  The dialogue is quite profane, but it perfectly captures the mood of era.
  The most profane swearer call refrain from his oaths, while in the presence of a person whom he fears, and to whom he knows it would be displeasing.
  However, in court, Erin's surly manner and profane vocabulary do not endear her to the jury, which finds in the defendant's favor.
  Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor.
  When two foremen told him to ‘control himself,’ he quickly ‘became abusive and used obscene and profane language to both of them.’
  All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances.
  A. We strongly encourage that you refrain from any profane or indecent language.
  And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not.
  Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public.
  My favorite curse word, unlike the favorite curse word of most of my guests, is not obscene, it's not scatological, it's profane.
  Synonyms
  obscene, blasphemous, foul, vulgar, crude, filthy, dirty, smutty, coarse, rude, offensive, scurrilous, off colour, indecent, indecorous

verbprəˈfānprəˈfeɪn

[with object]

Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect.
亵渎；玷污
it was a serious matter to profane a tomb
亵渎坟墓是件很严重的事。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sellers take pride in their wealth and because of this, their holy places will be profaned.
- When Elijah complained, ‘they have slain your prophets, they have profaned your altars and only I am left’, the Lord replied, ‘What are you doing here?
- The thought came into his mind, as he was profaning the Lord's Day, that he must either be converted or sent to hell to be damned.
- One of Christianity's holiest shrines was profaned by armed terrorists.
- Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day.
- When the older man learns that Isaac plans to move to Israel and participate in the resettling of the land, he breaks out in anger and reproaches Isaac for profaning the sacred bequest of Israel.
- Does it matter if John Wayne has profaned the Prophet?
- By profaning the West's most sacred sites, by their bodily sacrifice, these new warriors hope to set in motion a war and thereby to create an impassible boundary between Islamic sacred space and the rest.
- Mosques and churches have been profaned and desecrated by inebriated Israeli soldiers who see themselves as soldiers of David.
- To have your religion distorted and ridiculed and then to have one of your culture's most deeply treasured expressions purposely profaned - well, it's not very pleasant.
- Muslims and Israelis both claim that the temple mount in Jerusalem as their own sacred space, and thus see the presence of the other there as profaning it.
- The mere presence of the US profanes those holy shrines.
- All that was sacred has been profaned, as Marx put it, and it is not clear what, if anything, is sacred anymore.
- When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult, but threatens the fabric of international society.
- Finally, of course, are those religious advocates who regard us as at best profaning the sacred, or at worst promoting the work of Satan.
- I've received quite a few emails about the Darwin Fish, mostly to the effect that it takes a sacred Christian symbol and profanes it, and how would I like it if someone took a sacred Jewish symbol and profaned it.
- Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God.
- Thomas, they railed, had profaned a sacred text.
- This was particularly manifest in the way that the Sabbath was profaned and family worship neglected.
- Paul warns the Corinthians that if they eat and drink in an unworthy manner, they will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord.
Synonyms
desecrate, violate, defile, treat with disrespect, debase, degrade, contaminate, pollute, taint

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘heathen’): from Old French prophane, from Latin profanus ‘outside the temple, not sacred’, from pro- (from Latin pro ‘before’) + fanum ‘temple’.

词汇	profane
释义	Definition of profane in English: profane adjective prəˈfeɪnprəˈfeɪn 1Not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular. 世俗的 a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane 一次同时涉及神圣和世俗话题的讲话。 Example sentencesExamples Is Babel wholly profane and the Bible wholly holy? I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane. He joined me from the cabin, offering a beer and various kinds of counsel, profane wisdom of the world. He was as interested in the sacred as in the profane, in devotion and deviation alike. Inscribing the most sacred symbol on something profane and worldly, such as money, works against the religious canons. The culture is not wholly profane, but it has gifts to offer and wounds to heal. We are by nature incurably drawn to ritual in the realms of both the sacred and the profane. In most writings and interviews, the profane world is interpreted as a place of probation and is explained as an illusion or a bridge to other worlds. Among the Jews, all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand, they regard as permissible what seems to us immoral… It is convenient to reserve significant parts of the world as profane, and even ‘dirty,’ in order to preserve our ability to act in them without scruple. Sin and damnation are downplayed, and the distinctions between heaven and earth, the profane and the sacred, God's grace and our efforts tend to be fudged. The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors. Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one. Without considering arguments to the contrary, he asserts that a hierarchical ordering of reality and a division between the sacred and the profane are essential to the religious worldview. In the name of tradition, authorities lay claim to the power to manage with mantras of expansive truth and clarity seldom attained in the profane world of experimental science. Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth. Didn't the Buddha divide people into Aryans and the profane essentially saying that those who are Aryan follow the light and those who are profane follow the evil one? As Mark Taylor puts it, ‘the death of God is not a simple negation but a complex process in which the divine becomes incarnate when the profane is grasped as sacred’. Again, the composer suggests the reconciliation of sacred and profane, the religious and the sensual. He says that we largely live in profane space now, and the best we can do is create ‘ceremonies’ that give the appearance of sacred space but not the reality. Synonyms secular, lay, non-religious, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly unsanctified, unconsecrated, unhallowed rare laic 1.1 (of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge. （人）不谙宗教仪式的，未受秘传的 he was an agnostic, a profane man 他是个不可知论者，一个俗人。 Example sentencesExamples Milton reads as a blanket permission to Christians to divorce a heretical or idolatrous or grossly profane spouse. The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself. Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him. For the profane audience, these meanings remain hidden. This is a very profane interpretation and shows a huge misunderstanding of the canon. 2(of a person or their behaviour) not respectful of religious practice; irreverent. （人或其行为）渎神的，亵渎的，不敬神的 a profane person might be tempted to violate the tomb 不敬神的人可能会禁不住诱惑去盗挖坟墓。 Example sentencesExamples These are obscene, indeed profane, images, though not nearly as obscene as the human actions they document. The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture. A profane act demeans both the perpetrator and the one who is acted upon by disrespecting the Divine Force residing in each. If at that time humans were any less perverse, selfish, materialistic, profane, etc., than they had ever been, this should come as a great shock to all social historians. The questions can be completely anonymous and we encourage you to challenge the boundaries of the profane, the indecent and the naughty. He was easily the smartest, funniest, most annoying and most profane man I've been around. It may be said that this movie is crude, profane, and even obscene at times - but so is war. That means demanding that they answer for their lies, hypocrisy and profane behavior, just as much as we must answer for ours. Now after the accident, when it became apparent that he had changed, he's described as having become profane, irreverent, not showing much deference for his fellows. As a Pagan I consider these things sacred, so to me this is truly profane behavior. Synonyms irreverent, ungodly, godless, impious, disrespectful, irreligious, unbelieving, disbelieving, sacrilegious, idolatrous 2.1 (of language) blasphemous or obscene. （语言）不敬神的，污秽的 Example sentencesExamples Second, on an objective standard, Paul was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating. California Congressman Doug Ose is sponsoring a bill that would require the FCC to define any use of eight dirty words as profane. Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor. However, in court, Erin's surly manner and profane vocabulary do not endear her to the jury, which finds in the defendant's favor. A. We strongly encourage that you refrain from any profane or indecent language. My favorite curse word, unlike the favorite curse word of most of my guests, is not obscene, it's not scatological, it's profane. Thirty years after Cohen, there's no excuse for police departments to have their officers arrest people for carrying allegedly profane signs in public. Rizzo's language, which was hilariously profane, got cleaned up in print. All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances. Maybe we ought to have flashmobs where people gather to recite profane poetry… The dialogue is quite profane, but it perfectly captures the mood of era. But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine. When two foremen told him to ‘control himself,’ he quickly ‘became abusive and used obscene and profane language to both of them.’ Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public. Black and partner Kyle Gass form a tongue-in-cheek rock band spouting lyrics as funny as they are profane. I don't think I've gotten any more profane and offensive, lately, that I can see, and I tend to talk in much the same way as I always have, about much the same sort of things. The most profane swearer call refrain from his oaths, while in the presence of a person whom he fears, and to whom he knows it would be displeasing. The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power. The FCC, by law, must prohibit the utterance of ‘any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication.’ And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not. Synonyms obscene, blasphemous, foul, vulgar, crude, filthy, dirty, smutty, coarse, rude, offensive, scurrilous, off colour, indecent, indecorous rare Fescennine, Cyprian verb prəˈfeɪnprəˈfeɪn [with object] Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect. 亵渎；玷污 it was a serious matter to profane a tomb 亵渎坟墓是件很严重的事。 Example sentencesExamples This was particularly manifest in the way that the Sabbath was profaned and family worship neglected. When Elijah complained, ‘they have slain your prophets, they have profaned your altars and only I am left’, the Lord replied, ‘What are you doing here? Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God. By profaning the West's most sacred sites, by their bodily sacrifice, these new warriors hope to set in motion a war and thereby to create an impassible boundary between Islamic sacred space and the rest. Sellers take pride in their wealth and because of this, their holy places will be profaned. To have your religion distorted and ridiculed and then to have one of your culture's most deeply treasured expressions purposely profaned - well, it's not very pleasant. Paul warns the Corinthians that if they eat and drink in an unworthy manner, they will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Thomas, they railed, had profaned a sacred text. The mere presence of the US profanes those holy shrines. When the older man learns that Isaac plans to move to Israel and participate in the resettling of the land, he breaks out in anger and reproaches Isaac for profaning the sacred bequest of Israel. The thought came into his mind, as he was profaning the Lord's Day, that he must either be converted or sent to hell to be damned. I've received quite a few emails about the Darwin Fish, mostly to the effect that it takes a sacred Christian symbol and profanes it, and how would I like it if someone took a sacred Jewish symbol and profaned it. When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult, but threatens the fabric of international society. Mosques and churches have been profaned and desecrated by inebriated Israeli soldiers who see themselves as soldiers of David. All that was sacred has been profaned, as Marx put it, and it is not clear what, if anything, is sacred anymore. One of Christianity's holiest shrines was profaned by armed terrorists. Finally, of course, are those religious advocates who regard us as at best profaning the sacred, or at worst promoting the work of Satan. Muslims and Israelis both claim that the temple mount in Jerusalem as their own sacred space, and thus see the presence of the other there as profaning it. Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day. Does it matter if John Wayne has profaned the Prophet? Synonyms desecrate, violate, defile, treat with disrespect, debase, degrade, contaminate, pollute, taint Derivatives profanation noun prɒfəˈneɪʃ(ə)nˌprɑfəˈneɪʃ(ə)n It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name. Example sentencesExamples It is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others. This profanation may offend people of tradition, whether Jews or Christians. And it is your duty to the Sacrament - that It might not suffer profanation. He elevated acts of profanation or desecration to the status of epiphanies: singular mystical moments of Oneness with the All. profanely adverb prəˈfeɪnliprəˈfeɪnli When I discovered what they were plotting, I made plain, concisely and profanely, that this gesture struck me as the antithesis of doing the right thing. Example sentencesExamples The coffee itself is better than some, not as good as others, but profanely overpriced. One can treat a sidewalk profanely when they disrespect it by throwing their trash on to it, but they are not changing the sacred nature of the sidewalk. But this new Michael Collins is profanely funny and has lots of attitude. A young black man entered the car and began to rap loudly - profanely, arrogantly - with the usual wild gestures. profaneness noun prəˈfeɪnnəsprəˈfeɪnnəs The most potent response to profaneness is to strive for more holiness. profaner noun Ain't this is a great country - free bologna sandwiches for profaners! Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'heathen'): from Old French prophane, from Latin profanus 'outside the temple, not sacred', from pro- (from Latin pro 'before') + fanum 'temple'. The early sense of this was ‘heathen’ from Latin profanus ‘outside the temple, not sacred’ from Latin pro- ‘before’ and fanum ‘temple’. Rhymes abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, rain, Raine, refrain, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne Definition of profane in US English: profane adjectiveprəˈfānprəˈfeɪn 1Relating or devoted to that which is not sacred or biblical; secular rather than religious. 世俗的 a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane 一次同时涉及神圣和世俗话题的讲话。 Example sentencesExamples Our attention is then drawn to the case of Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel and the question of whether profane work is a stumbling block to spiritual depth. Sin and damnation are downplayed, and the distinctions between heaven and earth, the profane and the sacred, God's grace and our efforts tend to be fudged. The Church, however, has been unable to eradicate the blend of sacred and profane, spiritual and sensuous, life within death, which the East Slavs had inherited from their pagan ancestors. We are by nature incurably drawn to ritual in the realms of both the sacred and the profane. Without considering arguments to the contrary, he asserts that a hierarchical ordering of reality and a division between the sacred and the profane are essential to the religious worldview. Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one. He was as interested in the sacred as in the profane, in devotion and deviation alike. The culture is not wholly profane, but it has gifts to offer and wounds to heal. He joined me from the cabin, offering a beer and various kinds of counsel, profane wisdom of the world. It is convenient to reserve significant parts of the world as profane, and even ‘dirty,’ in order to preserve our ability to act in them without scruple. Again, the composer suggests the reconciliation of sacred and profane, the religious and the sensual. In most writings and interviews, the profane world is interpreted as a place of probation and is explained as an illusion or a bridge to other worlds. Didn't the Buddha divide people into Aryans and the profane essentially saying that those who are Aryan follow the light and those who are profane follow the evil one? I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane. Among the Jews, all things are profane that we hold sacred; on the other hand, they regard as permissible what seems to us immoral… Is Babel wholly profane and the Bible wholly holy? In the name of tradition, authorities lay claim to the power to manage with mantras of expansive truth and clarity seldom attained in the profane world of experimental science. Inscribing the most sacred symbol on something profane and worldly, such as money, works against the religious canons. He says that we largely live in profane space now, and the best we can do is create ‘ceremonies’ that give the appearance of sacred space but not the reality. As Mark Taylor puts it, ‘the death of God is not a simple negation but a complex process in which the divine becomes incarnate when the profane is grasped as sacred’. Synonyms secular, lay, non-religious, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly 1.1 (of a person) not initiated into religious rites or any esoteric knowledge. （人）不谙宗教仪式的，未受秘传的 he was an agnostic, a profane man 他是个不可知论者，一个俗人。 Example sentencesExamples This is a very profane interpretation and shows a huge misunderstanding of the canon. The profane person simply hasn't worked up a sweat trying to figure it out for himself. Augustine was a renegade against his mother's religion; took profane mistresses and lapsed into Manichaeism, a religion whose dualism always had a strong appeal for him. Milton reads as a blanket permission to Christians to divorce a heretical or idolatrous or grossly profane spouse. For the profane audience, these meanings remain hidden. 2(of a person or their behavior) not respectful of orthodox religious practice; irreverent. （人或其行为）渎神的，亵渎的，不敬神的 desecration of the temple by profane adolescents Example sentencesExamples If at that time humans were any less perverse, selfish, materialistic, profane, etc., than they had ever been, this should come as a great shock to all social historians. It may be said that this movie is crude, profane, and even obscene at times - but so is war. The questions can be completely anonymous and we encourage you to challenge the boundaries of the profane, the indecent and the naughty. A profane act demeans both the perpetrator and the one who is acted upon by disrespecting the Divine Force residing in each. Now after the accident, when it became apparent that he had changed, he's described as having become profane, irreverent, not showing much deference for his fellows. As a Pagan I consider these things sacred, so to me this is truly profane behavior. The Tamils in Singapore dismiss my plays as vulgar and profane, for, I subvert the images of the pseudo-Tamil culture. He was easily the smartest, funniest, most annoying and most profane man I've been around. These are obscene, indeed profane, images, though not nearly as obscene as the human actions they document. That means demanding that they answer for their lies, hypocrisy and profane behavior, just as much as we must answer for ours. Synonyms irreverent, ungodly, godless, impious, disrespectful, irreligious, unbelieving, disbelieving, sacrilegious, idolatrous 2.1 (of language) blasphemous or obscene. （语言）不敬神的，污秽的 Example sentencesExamples But he slowly recovered himself after some profane mutterings, reeled up the next flight of stairs, and finally deposited his well-soaked clay on the bed in his own room immediately over mine. I don't think I've gotten any more profane and offensive, lately, that I can see, and I tend to talk in much the same way as I always have, about much the same sort of things. California Congressman Doug Ose is sponsoring a bill that would require the FCC to define any use of eight dirty words as profane. The characters are crude, profane gangsters who acknowledge only the class distinction of power. Second, on an objective standard, Paul was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating. Thirty years after Cohen, there's no excuse for police departments to have their officers arrest people for carrying allegedly profane signs in public. Rizzo's language, which was hilariously profane, got cleaned up in print. Black and partner Kyle Gass form a tongue-in-cheek rock band spouting lyrics as funny as they are profane. Maybe we ought to have flashmobs where people gather to recite profane poetry… The FCC, by law, must prohibit the utterance of ‘any obscene, indecent or profane language by means of radio communication.’ The dialogue is quite profane, but it perfectly captures the mood of era. The most profane swearer call refrain from his oaths, while in the presence of a person whom he fears, and to whom he knows it would be displeasing. However, in court, Erin's surly manner and profane vocabulary do not endear her to the jury, which finds in the defendant's favor. Letter writers gratuitously laced their responses with profane and vulgar language, as if it were a badge of honor. When two foremen told him to ‘control himself,’ he quickly ‘became abusive and used obscene and profane language to both of them.’ All the anger and profane, obscene raileries come out in a torrent in one of Brando's most magnificent performances. A. We strongly encourage that you refrain from any profane or indecent language. And he had the habit of often making obscene, vulgar, or profane comments to other people he associated with, whether he knew them or not. Often using obscene, offensive and profane language she succeeds in shocking the reader out of the middle-class complacency that numbs the senses of the public. My favorite curse word, unlike the favorite curse word of most of my guests, is not obscene, it's not scatological, it's profane. Synonyms obscene, blasphemous, foul, vulgar, crude, filthy, dirty, smutty, coarse, rude, offensive, scurrilous, off colour, indecent, indecorous verbprəˈfānprəˈfeɪn [with object] Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect. 亵渎；玷污 it was a serious matter to profane a tomb 亵渎坟墓是件很严重的事。 Example sentencesExamples Sellers take pride in their wealth and because of this, their holy places will be profaned. When Elijah complained, ‘they have slain your prophets, they have profaned your altars and only I am left’, the Lord replied, ‘What are you doing here? The thought came into his mind, as he was profaning the Lord's Day, that he must either be converted or sent to hell to be damned. One of Christianity's holiest shrines was profaned by armed terrorists. Jesus retorted that the priests had already profaned the holy day. When the older man learns that Isaac plans to move to Israel and participate in the resettling of the land, he breaks out in anger and reproaches Isaac for profaning the sacred bequest of Israel. Does it matter if John Wayne has profaned the Prophet? By profaning the West's most sacred sites, by their bodily sacrifice, these new warriors hope to set in motion a war and thereby to create an impassible boundary between Islamic sacred space and the rest. Mosques and churches have been profaned and desecrated by inebriated Israeli soldiers who see themselves as soldiers of David. To have your religion distorted and ridiculed and then to have one of your culture's most deeply treasured expressions purposely profaned - well, it's not very pleasant. Muslims and Israelis both claim that the temple mount in Jerusalem as their own sacred space, and thus see the presence of the other there as profaning it. The mere presence of the US profanes those holy shrines. All that was sacred has been profaned, as Marx put it, and it is not clear what, if anything, is sacred anymore. When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult, but threatens the fabric of international society. Finally, of course, are those religious advocates who regard us as at best profaning the sacred, or at worst promoting the work of Satan. I've received quite a few emails about the Darwin Fish, mostly to the effect that it takes a sacred Christian symbol and profanes it, and how would I like it if someone took a sacred Jewish symbol and profaned it. Any profanity or harm to the parent is as if we've profaned God. Thomas, they railed, had profaned a sacred text. This was particularly manifest in the way that the Sabbath was profaned and family worship neglected. Paul warns the Corinthians that if they eat and drink in an unworthy manner, they will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Synonyms desecrate, violate, defile, treat with disrespect, debase, degrade, contaminate, pollute, taint Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘heathen’): from Old French prophane, from Latin profanus ‘outside the temple, not sacred’, from pro- (from Latin pro ‘before’) + fanum ‘temple’.
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