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Profaning
To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
📖 Definitions of "Profaning"
verb
- 1
To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
"One should not profane the name of God."
- 2
To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Profaning"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| sacrilegious | Committing sacrilege; acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred. |
| desecrateverb | (transitive) To profane or violate the sacredness or sanctity of something. |
| profanatory | Involving or relating to profanation. |
| unholy | Not holy; (by extension) evil, impure, or otherwise perverted. |
| blasphemous | Lacking piety or respect for the sacred; resembling blasphemy. |
| depraveverb | (transitive) To make bad or worse; to vitiate; to corrupt |
| irreverent | Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts. |
| pervertverb | (transitive) To corrupt; to cause to be untrue; corrupted or otherwise impure |
| demoralizeverb | To destroy the morale of; to dishearten. |
| debaseverb | (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. |
| vitiateverb | (transitive) To spoil, make faulty; to reduce the value, quality, or effectiveness of something. |
| outrageverb | (uncountable) The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts. |
| violateverb | (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention). |
| misdirectverb | To direct something wrongly |
| dirtyverb | (transitive) To make (something) dirty. |
| unhallowed | Not hallowed or blessed; unholy. |
| unsanctified | Not having been sanctified; not made sacred; remaining mundane or worldly. |
| laicnoun | Lay, relating to laypersons, as opposed to clerical. |
| secularnoun | Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical. |
| debauchverb | (transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce. |
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