profanation
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French prophanation, profanation, and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin profanatio, from the participle stem of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin profānāre.
Pronunciation
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Noun
profanation (countable and uncountable, plural profanations)
- The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
- 1826-06, The Gentleman's Magazine, page 528:
- […] but there is a time and a season for all things, and we look upon such attempts as that before us, with a certain portion of respect for a good intention, but as a lamentable want of judgment and good taste, not to speak of a familiarity with the phraseology of Scripture, little short of profanation.
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French
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Noun
profanation f (plural profanations)
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