All 3 Uses of
profane
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- In the profane world, as he foresaw, a worldly voice would bid him raise up his father's fallen state by his labours and, meanwhile, the voice of his school comrades urged him to be a decent fellow, to shield others from blame or to beg them off and to do his best to get free days for the school.†
Chpt 2 *
- —Heavenly God! cried Stephen's soul, in an outburst of profane joy.†
Chpt 4
- His own image started forth a profaner of the cloister, a heretic franciscan, willing and willing not to serve, spinning like Gherardino da Borgo San Donnino, a lithe web of sophistry and whispering in her ear.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(profane as in: don't be profane) showing no respect for something thought of as sacred