profane

Meanings

Adjective

  • Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
  • Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
  • Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
  • Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain

Noun

  • A person or thing that is profane.
  • A person not a Mason.

Verb

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Origin

  • From Middle French prophane, from Latin profānus, from pro- + fānum.

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