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Definition
showing no respect for something thought of as sacred
- I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.Chapters 25-26 (94% in)
- On his return from the Vatican, Franz carefully avoided the Corso; he brought away with him a treasure of pious thoughts, to which the mad gayety of the maskers would have been profanation.Chapters 35-36 (78% in)
There are no more uses of "profane" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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