All 3 Uses
profane
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Smith, a man at once pugnacious, profane, and professorial, proposed that the business of mounting continental land offensives was the historic province of the Army, and should remain so.†
Chpt 3.
- And Mike in turn softened his martinet's aura with frequent outbursts of goofy, profane humor.†
Chpt 5. *
- He was irascible, often profane, and constantly ruffled the smooth feathers of the hidebound Navy, but like Patton, he was a winner.†
Chpt 6.
Definitions:
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(profane as in: don't be profane) showing no respect for something thought of as sacred
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Profane can also 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.