Both Uses of
profane
in
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- O, there be players that I have seen play,—and heard others praise, and that highly,—not to speak it profanely, that, neither having the accent of Christians, nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.†
Scene 3.2
- No more be done; We should profane the service of the dead To sing a requiem and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls.†
Scene 5.1 *
Definition:
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(profane as in: don't be profane) showing no respect for something thought of as sacred