profanation

noun
/pɹɒfəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/UK

Etymology

From Middle French prophanation, profanation, and its source, Late Latin profanatio, from the participle stem of Latin profānō.

  1. derived from profānō
  2. derived from profanatio
  3. derived from prophanation

Definitions

  1. The act of profaning

    The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.

    • those which mocke and condemne it, intend neverthelesse to wrong this noble vertue; but onely to condemne the abuse and profanation of so sacred a title[…].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for profanation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA