All 8 Uses of
profane
in
Moby Dick
- It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.†
Chpt Extr
- —FULLLER'S PROFANE AND HOLY STATE.†
Chpt Extr
- As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate, Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up, and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.†
Chpt 16-18
- "No need of profane words, however great the hurry, Peleg," said Bildad, "but away with thee, friend Starbuck, and do our bidding."†
Chpt 22-24
- Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice copy of Watts in each seaman's berth.†
Chpt 22-24
- Charley profanely hinted they were humbug.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.†
Chpt 34-36
- One day the planks stream with freshets of blood and oil; on the sacred quarter-deck enormous masses of the whale's head are profanely piled; great rusty casks lie about, as in a brewery yard; the smoke from the try-works has besooted all the bulwarks; the mariners go about suffused with unctuousness; the entire ship seems great leviathan himself; while on all hands the din is deafening.†
Chpt 97-99
Definition:
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(profane as in: don't be profane) showing no respect for something thought of as sacred