Both Uses of
profane
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- 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.†
Chpt 35-36
Definitions:
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(1)
(profane as in: don't be profane) showing no respect for something thought of as sacred
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely profane may mean that something is not sacred or concerned with religion; or that it is not holy because it is unconsecrated, impure or defiled. As a verb it can mean to spoil something considered holy by using it in a degrading or unworthy way.