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Definition of Profanations
1. profanation [n] - See also: profanation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Profanations
Literary usage of Profanations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of General Lafayette and of the French Revolution of 1830 by Bernard Sarrans (1833)
"He Protests against the profanations of Saint Germain 1'Auxerrois. THE Sittings
of the Chamber of Deputies, of the 19th and 20th of February, ..."
2. Memoirs of General Lafayette: And of the French Revolution of 1830 by Bernard Sarrans (1833)
"He Protests against the profanations of Saint Germain 1'Auxerrois. THE Sittings
of the Chamber of Deputies, of the 19th and 20th of February, ..."
3. The Laws Concerning Religious Worship: Also Mortmain and Charitable Uses by John Jenkins (1885)
"3 c. 49. " An Act for preventing certain Abuses and profanations on the Lord's
Day, called Sunday" (y), AD 1781. ..."
4. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"At last the much abused amphitheatre was reclaimed from profanations when Benedict
XIV., in 1749, caused to be erected the plain wooden Cross in the centre, ..."
5. The Apocalypse Revealed: Wherein are Disclosed the Arcana There Foretold by Emanuel Swedenborg (1836)
"... earth have committed whoredom with her," signifies, that they fabricated
abominable tenets, which are the adulterations and profanations of what is good ..."
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