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profanation

/prof-uh-ney-shuhn/US // ˌprɒf əˈneɪ ʃən //

亵渎,亵渎行为,亵渎罪,亵渎神明

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.

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Examples

  • The limbs and members of the slain Christ were made the vehicle of revolting profanation.

  • He gazed and then he did not gaze at all—it seemed like a profanation.

  • He looked upon married life, with all its hallowed beauty, as a profanation for a priest.

  • Have not many, who have ended their days on the scaffold, traced their ruin to the profanation of the Sabbath?

  • Rarely, if ever, has there been a more ghastly profanation of the Holy Sacrament of Regeneration!