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How to use profanation in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word profanation? Here are some examples.

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It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name.
It may include feelings of guilt or profanation, at times engendering a twinge-or surge-of regret, an impulse to repent.
It is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others.
For what is at stake in the argument against profanation is an institutionalized structure of authority tending to underwrite analogous structures in both church and state.
To George, the idea of cats around Mr. Edom, a man of the old order, is profanation.
Wirth adds that the rise in Last Judgment imagery occurs not coincidentally at a time when the profanation of the Host becomes a concern of zealous clerics.
Some cases of profanation of cemeteries may in fact be part of this logic, being seen as an indispensable step in the integration of the young disciple into the clan.
The most dramatic and symbolic manifestation of individual acts of anti-Semitism concerns the profanation, the desecration of tombs and places of worship.
There is still an undertone of resentment, with almost every writer inclined to blame some group for which he or she takes no responsibility for the profanation of the rural shrine.
Who can prevent the Mother of the Eucharist from taking the Eucharist away from profanation and black masses and bringing It into the thaumaturgical place?
Examples from Classical Literature
But the fanes and museums of these rock-gods are guarded against the too easy profanation of human curiosity.
This is what Sunday might be made, and what it might be made without impiety or profanation.
Haggerstone and he were intimates were it not a profanation of the word, we should say friends.
What would the old counts of your ancestry have said to such a profanation?
But what self-respecting violinist could endure 67 such profanation without striking a blow for his fanes?
I am no different from other Gods in that I seem to have endowed you with the instinct of profanation.
Even if I could do it, it would be profanation for me to play at being in love.
The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
No wonder she shuddered at such profanation, and shed her false beard.
It seems like profanation to laugh and jest and bandy the frivolous chat of our day amid its hoary relics.
Weighed in this scale, what a profanation is this man guilty of!
I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.
His voice sounded thin and futile after the other's, and to Jurgis it seemed a profanation.
Their spirit of profanation and impiety arrived at the extreme pitch.
Any profanation of the day was severely punished by fine or whipping.
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