Profane language is the kind that gets bleeped on TV. The word profane can also describe behavior that's deeply offensive because it shows a lack of respect, especially for someone's religious beliefs.
Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired;
Verb
violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"
Verb
corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
Adjective S.
characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
Adjective S.
grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches'' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
Adjective S.
not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
Adjective
not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment"
a.
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.
a.
Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
a.
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect,
irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
a.
Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain;
given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or
tongue.
a.
To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse,
irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to
profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of
God.
a.
To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base
employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Profane
The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.2.
Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.3.
Profane
The priests in the temple profane the sabbath.2.
So idly to profane the precious time.
Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired;
To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute;
Usage Examples
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and the holy and the profane.
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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Other Usage ExamplesI'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
War is a profane thing.
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