Definitions for profane

profane pro·fane

Spelling: [pruh-feyn, proh-]
IPA: /prəˈfeɪn, proʊ-/

Profane is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in profane (aefnopr).

Definitions for profane

adjective

  1. characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
  2. not devoted to holy or religious purposes; unconsecrated; secular (opposed to sacred).
  3. unholy; heathen; pagan:
  4. not initiated into religious rites or mysteries, as persons.
  5. common or vulgar.

verb (used with object)

  1. to misuse (anything that should be held in reverence or respect); defile; debase; employ basely or unworthily.
  2. to treat (anything sacred) with irreverence or contempt; violate the sanctity of:

Origin of profane

1350-1400; (adj.) Latin profānus literally, before (outside of) the temple; replacing Middle English prophane Medieval Latin prophānus desecrated (see pro-1

Examples for profane

How strikingly different is the course of profane and sacred history!

Charming, profane, alcoholic television anchorman becomes local hero and changes the news business.

His novel The Last Magazine, published posthumously this month, is just like him:  blistering, fun, insightful, and profane.

But we were, of course, mostly giggling at the nom de sext “Carlos Danger” and his profane sexual demands.

He would not have it supposed that only the profane or grossly wicked were in danger from the law. '

I worshipped the divinity, even while I attempted to profane the altar.

It is not profane if I now say, 'with a great price obtained I this freedom.'

From the divine to the profane, what we mean when we say that potent word.

It was, as Woodward remembers, pure Bradlee—brief, profane, and entirely correct.

But he did not profane that scene by the mockery of his art.

Word Value for profane
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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