Profane

Definition: Profane

Profane

Adjective

1. Characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words".

2. Not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely profane environment".

3. Not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled.

4. Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on".

Verb

1. Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women".

2. Violate the sacred character of a place, such as a graveyard.

Date "profane" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Profane means literally before the temple (Latin, pro fanum). Those persons who came to the temple and were not initiated were called profane by the Romans. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Profane

Synonyms: blasphemous (adj), blue (adj), sacrilegious (adj), unconsecrated (adj), unsanctified (adj), corrupt (v), debase (v), debauch (v), demoralise (v), demoralize (v), deprave (v), desecrate (v), misdirect (v), outrage (v), pervert (v), violate (v), vitiate (v). (additional references)

Antonym: sacred (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impiety	Verb: be impious; Adjective:, profane, desecrate, blaspheme, revile, scoff; swear; (malediction); commit sacrilege.
	Adjective: impious; irreligious; desecrating;Verb: profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous.
Laity	Adjective: secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
Malediction	Abuse; foul language, bad language, strong language, unparliamentary language; billingsgate, sauce, evil speaking; cursing; Verb: profane swearing, oath; foul invective, ribaldry, rude reproach, scurrility.
Misuse	Desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Profane

English words defined with "profane": curse, curse word, cuss ♦ Dishallow ♦ expletive ♦ oath ♦ Profanate, profanely, profaneness, Profaner, Profaning, Prophane ♦ rip out ♦ swearing, swearword ♦ taboo, tabu ♦ Unhallow, unsanctification. (references)

Specialty definitions using "profane": Ahasuerus, Alexander the Corrector., ASSIGNMENT EDITOR ♦ Dodanim ♦ Friar John, Frog ♦ MANAGER, PRODUCTION, Mauthe Dog ♦ Nergal-sharezer ♦ sacred, SCRIPTURES. (references)

Etymologies containing "profane": Profanation. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Profane" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (lay, layman, profane, unholy), Latin (impious, not initiated, profane, secular).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Profane or really offensive? (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton)
Movie/TV Titles	The Proud and Profane (1956) Sacred and Profane Love (1921) Dances Sacred and Profane (1984)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel (reference) Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism) (reference) Sacred and Profane Dimensions of Love in Indian Traditions As Exemplified in the Gitagovinda of Jayadeva (Oxford University South Asian Studies) (reference) The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Profane Arts Of The Middle Ages (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Asia/Haahiem: Sacred & Profane (reference) Jerusalem: Sacred and Profane (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Debussy: La Mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Danse sacrée et profane (reference) Berlin Live: Sacred and Profane [LIVE] (reference) Profane (reference) Profane Groove (reference) Britten: Sacred and Profane (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Ralph Waldo Emerson	No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Thomas Hobbes	The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	For there are no examples so frequent in history, both sacred and profane, as those of men withdrawing themselves, and their obedience, from the jurisdiction they were born under, and the family or community they were bred up in, and setting up new governments in other places; from whence sprang all that number of petty commonwealths in the beginning of ages, and which always multiplied, as long as there was room enough, till the stronger, or more fortunate, swallowed the weaker; and those great ones again breaking to pieces, dissolved into lesser dominions. (Second Treatise of Government)
Communist Manifesto	1848	The German literate reversed this process with the profane French literature. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Profane eyes must see nothing of this sacred place.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Panama	The board monitors radio transmissions and has the authority to fine stations that violate norms regarding vulgar, profane, or obscene language. (references)
	Malaysia	The Government bans certain books for political and religious reasons or because of sexual or profane content. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc. All things are either sacred or profane. The former to ecclesiasts bring gain; The latter to the devil appertain. Dumbo Omohundro
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Profane" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.44% of the time. "Profane" is used about 90 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	84.44%	76	38,217
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.22%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	3.33%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	90	N/A

Expression using "profane": profane word. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "profane": sacred-profane.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "profane"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		profan (lay), përlyej (besmirch, daub), përdhosës, përdhos (desecrate, pollute), laik (laic, lay, layman, secular, temporal), jofetar (irreligious, secular), i parespektueshëm (pert). (various references)

Arabic		‏مدنس (defiled, sacrilegious, soiled), ‏نجس (defile, defiled, impure, pollute, sinful, unclean, untouchable), ‏وثني (ethnic, ethnical, gentile, heathen, heathenish, idolatrous, pagan), ‏غير بارع (amateurish, artless, bungling, clumsy, inapt, inferior, unskilful, unskilled, unworkmanlike), ‏جدف (curse, feather, paddle, row), ‏إمتهن شيئا نفسيا, ‏إنتهك الحرمات, ‏إنتهك (break, contravene, encroach, invade, offend, outrage, traduce, transgress, trespass), ‏دنس (defile, desecrate, grubby, impure, ordure, pollute, pollution, profanity, scum, soil, sullying, violate). (various references)

Bulgarian		скверен (obscene, prurient), светски (earthbound, earthly, fashionable, fleshly, laic, lay, material, mundane, secular, smart, social, society, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, unclerical, world, worldly), осквернявам (befoul, contaminate, defile, desecrate, do violence to, pollute, violate), нечестив (impious, nefarious, unclean, unhallowed, unholy), непосветен (uninitiated), мирски (secular, temporal, unclerical), мирянски (lay), езически (heathen, heathenish, pagan, paganish, unchristian, uncircumcised), богохулен, профанирам (defile, do violence to, violate). (various references)

Chinese		世俗 (secular, worldly). (various references)

Czech		zprofanovat (defile, desecrate), zneuctít (desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, spatter), znesvìtit (defile, desecrate, violate), znesvìcený, svìtský (mundane, secular, temporal), rouhavý (blasphemous), rouhat se (blaspheme). (various references)

Dutch		profaneren (defile), ontheiligen (defile). (various references)

Esperanto		profani (defile). (various references)

Faeroese		vanhalga (defile). (various references)

Farsi		کفرامیز (Unhallow, Unhallowed, Unholy), بی حرمتی کردن , بدزبان (Abusive, Ribald). (various references)

Finnish		häpäistä (desecrate, disgrace, dishonour, violate). (various references)

French		profaner, profane, violer, sacrilège. (various references)

German		entweihen (defile, desecrate, pollute, violate), profanieren (defile), entheiligen (defile, desecrate). (various references)

Greek		βέβηλοσ, βεβηλώ, βλάστημοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לחלל �"ק�"וש (blaspheme, desecrate), לחלל (debase, defile, desecrate, violate), חלו� י (laic, lay, secular, secularist, temporal, worldly), חולין (secular). (various references)

Hungarian		világias (wordly, worldly, worldly-minded). (various references)

Indonesian		najis, keduniaan (affairs of mortal life, earthly, worldly). (various references)

Italian		profano (ignorant, lay, layman, outsider, secular), profanare (defile, desecrate), sacrilego (sacrilege, sacrilegious), irriverente (disrespectful, irreverent). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'す (to brave, to desecrate, to face, to profane, to risk, to venture). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おかす (to brave, to commit, to desecrate, to face, to intrude on, to invade, to perpetrate, to profane, to raid, to rape, to risk, to trespass, to venture, to violate). (various references)

Manx		seihlltagh (earthly, materialistic, mundane, secular, terrestrial, worldly), seihllt (earthy, secular, temporal, terrestrial, worldly), mee-ooashlaghey (despise), meenooaghey (profanation), anchasherick (impious, unholy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ofanepray

Portuguese		violar (abuse, assault, breach, contravene, defile, infringe, invade, rape, ravish, transgress, violate), profanar (defile, desecrate, dishallow, pollute, violate). (various references)

Romanian		profana (defile, desecrate, pollute, violate), profan (impious, layman, secular), lumesc (bodily, earth-bound, earthly, earthy, fleshly, mundane, secular, temporal, worldly), laic (laic, lay, layman, secular, worldly), hulitor (blasphemous), huli (abuse, blaspheme, curse, cuss, swear), de lume, comite (commit, perpetrate, recommit), cârti împotriva. (various references)

Russian		светский (lay, mundane, secular), осквернять (befoul, contaminate, defile, desecrate, pollute, violate), непосвященный, мирской (laic, mundane, worldly), богохульный (blasphemous). (various references)

Scottish		truaill (a sheath, defile, pollute, scabbard, sheath, violate), amasguidh, amsgith. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		profan, skrnaviti, nečist (dishonest, disorderly, impure, unclean), huliti (blaspheme). (various references)

Spanish		profano (lay, secular, unholy). (various references)

Swedish		vanhelga (deflower, desecrate, violate), profan (secular, unhallowed). (various references)

Turkish		putperest (heathen, heathenish, idolater, idolatress, pagan, worshipper of idols), laik (civil, laic, secular, unclerical), kâfir (blasphemer, blasphemous, heathen, heretic, infidel, misbeliever, unbeliever, unbelieving), dinsiz (faithless, godless, heathenish, impious, irreligious, unbeliever, ungodly), dinle ilgisi olmayan. (various references)

Ukrainian		світський (fashionable, genteel, laic, laical, lay, mundane, secular, social, terrestrial), оскверняти (contaminate, desecrate, soil, violate), нечестивий (castaway, godless, impious, irreligious, nefarious, reprobate, unholy, unrighteous, wicked), непосвячений, мирський (human, laic, laical, lay, sublunar, sublunary, worldly), профанувати, поганити (befoul, pollute). (various references)

Vietnamese		trần tục (mundane, subsolar, world). (various references)

Welsh		rheglyd (given to cursing), halogi (defile, pollute). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	blasphemia. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	profana, profanabo, profanare, profanas, profanasti, profanatis, profanatum, profanaverint, profane, profano, profanos, profanum, profanus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 24, Verse 6
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	OV kai to ieron epeirasen bebhlwsai on kai ekrathsamen kai kata ton hmeteron nomon hqelhsamen krinein
Latin	405	Vulgate	Qui etiam templum violare conatus est quem et adprehendimus
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Whom also we token, and wolden deme, after oure lawe.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And hath also enforsed to pollute the temple. Whom we toke and wolde have iudged acordinge to oure lawe:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 24, Verse 6
Albanian	Ai, madje, u përpoq të përdhosë tempullin; dhe ne e zumë dhe deshëm ta gjykonim sipas ligjit tonë.
Cebuano	Ug misulay gayud gani siya sa pagpasipala sa templo, apan gidakop namo siya. Ug amo na unta siyang hukman subay sa among kasugoan.
Croatian	da je èak i Hram pokušao oskvrnuti pa ga uhitismo.
Danish	ja, han har endog forsøgt at vanhellige Helligdommen. Vi grebe ham da også og vilde have dømt ham efter vor Lov.
Dutch	Die ook gepoogd heeft den tempel te ontheiligen, welken wij ook gegrepen hebben, en naar onze wet hebben willen oordelen.
Finnish	ja hän on koettanut pyhäkönkin saastuttaa. Sentähden me otimme hänet kiinni.
French	et qui même a tenté de profaner le temple. Et nous l`avons arrêté. Nous avons voulu le juger selon notre loi;
German	der auch versucht hat, den Tempel zu entweihen; welchen wir auch griffen und wollten ihn gerichtet haben nach unserem Gesetz.
Haitian Creole	Li menm seye derespekte tanp lan. Lè nou wè sa, nou arete l'. Nou te vle jije l' dapre Lalwa nou an.
Hungarian	Ki a templomot is meg akarta fertõztetni. Meg is fogtuk õt, és a mi törvényünk szerint akartuk megítélni.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	yang juga sudah mencoba menajiskan Bait Allah; tetapi hamba sekalian memegangkan dia, serta hendak menghukumkan dia menurut hukum hamba sekalian;
Italian	Ha perfino tentato di profanare il tempio e noi l'abbiamo arrestato.
Maori	I mea hoki ia kia whakanoatia te temepara: na ka hopu matou i a ia, ka mea kia whakawakia ia ki ta to matou ture i whakatakoto ai.
Norwegian	han har endog søkt å vanhellige templet. Vi grep ham derfor og vilde dømme ham efter vår lov;
Rumanian	wi a cercat sq spurce chiar wi Templul. Wi am pus mknq pe el. Am vrut sq -l judecqm dupq Legea noastrq:
Russian	ЛПФПТЩК ПФЧБЦЙМУС �"БЦЕ ПУЛЧЕТОЙФШ ИТБН, НЩ ЧЪСМЙ ЕЗП Й ИПФЕМЙ УХ�"ЙФШ ЕЗП � П ОБЫЕНХ ЪБЛПОХ.
Shuar	Nú arantcha Yusa Uunt Jeen yajauch awajsataj tusa pujuru Wáinkiar achikmaji. Ii uuntri tana nujai métek Asutiátai tusar wakerimji.
Swahili	Tena alijaribu kulikufuru Hekalu nasi tukamtia nguvuni. Kama ukimhoji wewe mwenyewe, utaweza kubainisha mambo haya yote tunayomshtaki kwayo."fc
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "profane": profaned, profanely, profaneness, profanenesses, profaner, profaners, profanes. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Profane" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Porana, Prafance, proan, profain, Profaine, profan, profance, profant, Profanter, profice, profien, profine, Prosafe, protane, Provand, Puolanne, pyocanea. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "profane" (pronounced prōfā"n)
3	-f ā" n	fain, Fane, feign.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: afore, apron, arpen, frena, opera, paeon, pareo, prone.
	-3 letters: aeon, aero, aper, earn, fane, fano, fare, faro, fear, fern, fora, fore, frae, frap, froe, nape, neap, near, nope, open, pane, pare, pean, pear, peon, pone, pore, porn, prao, proa, prof, rape, reap, repo, roan, rope.
	-4 letters: ane, ape, are, arf, ear, eon, era.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-n-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: pinafore, profaned, profaner, profanes.
	+2 letters: pinafored, pinafores, profanely, profaners.
	+3 letters: foretopman, fortepiano, pianoforte, prefrontal, saponifier.
	+4 letters: foremanship, fortepianos, francophone, perforating, perforation, performance, pianofortes, prefrontals, profaneness, profanities, saponifiers.
	+5 letters: craftsperson, draftsperson, flavoprotein, foremanships, forespeaking, leapfrogging, perforations, performances, petrifaction, preformation, professional, proofreading, putrefaction, unprofitable.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
existence profane	32
profane	18
black holy in music popular profane religion	11
sacred and profane	5
en islam le profane	5
justice profane	4
profane words	2
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Profane

Definition: Profane

Profane

Adjective

Verb

Specialty Definition: Profane

Synonyms: Profane

Synonyms within Context: Profane

Impiety

Laity

Malediction

Misuse

Crosswords: Profane

Modern Usage: Profane

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Profane

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Familiar Quotations: Profane

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thomas Hobbes

Historic Usage: Profane

John Locke

Communist Manifesto

Use in Literature: Profane

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Profane

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Profane

Expression: Profane

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Profane

Modern Translation: Profane

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Ancestral Language Translations: Profane

Bible Trace: Profane

Matched Bible Translations: Profane

Derivations & Misspellings: Profane

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Rhyming with "Profane"

Anagrams: Profane

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