Word Meanings - PROFANE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as,

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temple, i. e., without the temple, unholy; pro before + fanum temple. 1. Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired; as, a profane place. "Profane authors." I. Disraeli. The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine. Gibbon. 2. Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy. Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. Sir W. Raleigh. 3. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue. 1 Tim. i. 9. Syn. -- Secular; temporal; worldly; unsanctified; unhallowed; unholy; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; wicked; godless; impious. See Impious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFANE)

• Desecrate
• Profane
• secularize
• misuse
• abuse
• prostitute
• pollute
• Impious
• irreverent
• godless
• wicked
• blasphemous
• Irreligions
• Undevout
• ungodly
• profane
• impious
• Secular
• Worldly
• civil
• unmonastic
• temporal
• laic
• Violate
• Ravish
• injure
• disturb
• hurt
• rape
• outrage
• debauch
• break
• infringe
• transgress
• disobey

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROFANE)

• Purify
• enlighten
• ameliorate
• elevate
• make better

Related words: (words related to PROFANE)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• BLASPHEMOUS
  Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature. "Blasphemous publications." Porteus. Nor from the Holy
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• TEMPORALNESS
  Worldliness. Cotgrave.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• DISOBEYER
  One who disobeys.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• BLASPHEMOUSLY
  In a blasphemous manner.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• SECULAR
  A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules. Burke.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• TEMPORAL
  Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural. Dryden. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor or temporals. Lowell.
• PROSTITUTE
  1. A woman giver to indiscriminate lewdness; a strumpet; a harlot. 2. A base hireling; a mercenary; one who offers himself to infamous employments for hire. No hireling she, no prostitute to praise. Pope.
• WICKER
  1. A small pliant twig or osier; a rod for making basketwork and the like; a withe. 2. Wickerwork; a piece of wickerwork, esp. a basket. Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it. Chapman. 3. Same as
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• INCIVIL
  Uncivil; rude. Shak.
• BRUNSWICK GREEN
  An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.
• BAILIWICK
  The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• UNCIVILIZATION
  The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.