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(Entry 1 of 2)
- it was hard to juggle the requirements of church and our more profane duties
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- laical
- (or laic),
- lay,
- nonclerical
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- offended by the profane language that her coworkers used so casually
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- agnostic,
- atheistic
- (or atheistical)
- godless,
- heretical
- (also heretic),
- irreligious,
- miscreant,
- nonreligious,
- religionless,
- secular
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- devout,
- God-fearing,
- godly,
- holy,
- prayerful,
- religious,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- worshipful,
- worshipping
- (also worshiping)
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- his idea of dinner table conversation is the telling of profane stories about his alleged sexual exploits
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- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- staid,
- straitlaced
- (or straightlaced),
- Victorian
- approved,
- endorsed
- (also indorsed),
- sanctioned
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of profane (Entry 2 of 2)
- the once-lovely landscape had been profaned by ugly factories
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- abase,
- bastardize,
- canker,
- cheapen,
- corrupt,
- debase,
- debauch,
- degrade,
- demean,
- demoralize,
- deprave,
- deteriorate,
- lessen,
- pervert,
- poison,
- prostitute,
- subvert,
- vitiate,
- warp
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- profaned his considerable acting talents by appearing in some wretched movies
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- invading troops profaned the altar by playing poker on it
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“Profane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/profane. Accessed 26 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of profane was in the 14th century
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