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.
- derived from profānō
- derived from profanatio
- derived from prophanation
Definitions
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