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profanation
/ˌpɹɔfəˈneɪʃən/
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What does profanation mean?
noun
- The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌpɹɔfəˈneɪʃən/
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This is what Sunday might be made, and what it might be made without impiety or profanation.
His voice sounded thin and futile after the other’s, and to Jurgis it seemed a profanation.
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Roderick declared that he would go nowhere else; that, after the Juno, it was a profanation to look at anything but sky and trees.
In a certain sense, it is a sort of profanation to consider if my garden pays, or to set a money- value upon my delight in it.
Can there be, my Christian brethren, a greater profanation of a holy ordinance than the use of the drunkard's cup as a communion wine, instead of the fruit of the vine?