Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: profanation
IPA transcription: [pɹ,ɔfən'eɪʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: profanation
    Meaning: degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening
  • Synonyms: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege
    Meaning: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath"
Usage examples
  • The clasp of his arms around her seemed suddenly a profanation, and he laid her down very gently on the low couch, drawing the thin coverlet over her, and went back slowly to the other room.
  • Is it not the worst of sacrilege, a foul profanation of our human nature, which for us, at least, should be holy and awful, when the heroic and saintly martyrdom of a true Man is thus falsified into the self-schemed sham sacrifice, ineffectual, of a God?
  • There were certain dastardly deeds, certain acts of profanation, certain lies, at which those hordes that came to us from Asia hesitated; an instinctive reverence still restrained them; and, moreover, in those times they did not destroy with such impudent cynicism, invoking the God of Christians in a burlesque pathos of prayer!