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In her estimation to be mirthful was to be profane; to be cheerful was to be frivolous-she drew no distinctions.

And yet some conservatives have turned it into a profane text, one that proves Mr Obama's unfitness for the great office he holds.

Do not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.

or I shall be full, and deny you, and say, "Who is the Lord? " or I shall be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

Dooce's mix of serious and silly, profane and profound, has found a lot of would-be imitators.

All forms of veneer and posing for perfection is, no matter how the profane out of goodwill.

I was sorry, I said, to hear them so very profane .

Don't profane the sacredness of the word poetry with your premature ejeculation.

Law marks the passage in both directions, the point of transit between the sacred and the profane.

His taste for the profane was exhibited in a few libidinous portraits of young boys, and it is generally assumed that he was a homosexual.

When Profane and Stencil have all perished in the sea, the apparent entropic theme of V. is revealed at the end of this novel.

He gained loyal clients, and was confident enough to engage in profane shouting matches with them on the phone.

But you profane it by saying of the Lord's table, 'It is defiled, ' and of its food, 'It is contemptible. '

Do not profane my holy name. I must be acknowledged as holy by the Israelites.

but let the door be wholly shut against the profane.

blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath; profane utterances against the Church; it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on.

Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God.

Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings the Israelites consecrate to me, so they will not profane my holy name.

The car horn is like a lovely word defiled. It was never meant to be profane.

Because for the fear of beauty, I am not abrupt, they dare not profane, do not hate the slighted, they dare not meet.

They dare not provoke such a powerful spirit, or profane his temple.

Exactly how obscene an amount of money were you talking about? Just profane or really offensive?

Diminutive, pugnacious and profane, he was the chief of staff from central casting.

And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto Jehovah.

What are the statutes and rules regarding the broadcast of obscene, indecent, and profane programming?

Lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one meal gave up his own birthright.

To smoke in a church or mosque would be a profane act.

By feeding their dead to the birds of the air, the Parsees profane neither earth nor fire.

Of course the serpent would soon attempt to profane God's temple.

As Karl Marx noticed, after visiting the Great Exhibition of 1851, clever presentation gives "a profane glow" to mundane products.

Aside from unease about creating stars with votes, officials criticised it as profane and "unhealthy" .

Why do we act deceitfully, each man with his brother, to profane the covenant of our fathers.

Back, daughter of Sodom! Touch me not. Profane not the temple of the Lord God.

Pyrrha first broke silence: "We cannot obey; we dare not profane the remains of our parents. "

Roger's Profanisaurus: Have fun looking up profane words at "the ultimate swearing dictionary. "

George Washington told his troops to refrain from "the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing. "

How do we respond to "street talk, " when people around us speak in profane terms or use demeaning language about other people?

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

The stories they tell are cynical, flip, and profane--the very antithesis of "heroic" in the romantic sense.

These frictions - between past and present, sacred and profane, the domestic and the exotic- invigorate me.

Tourists will be urged not to profane the sanctity of holy places by wearing improper garb.

and others suggest a long list of other military acronyms often more profane, but I hadn't heard of many of them.

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself [rather] unto godliness.

Is love to be divided as the sacred and the profane?

But for few unlucky ones it has morphed from profound to profane.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Avoid the profane chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge.

The literary works students read are of low aesthetic value, which results in the students' vulgar taste and profane attitude towards life.

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Apps have often crossed the line between the sacred and the profane.

God had hallowed creation by separating the sacred from the profane, the clean from the unclean.

" Daughter" , said Gerald, rousing himself, " you are profane. Your mother will be grieved. "

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the LORD do sanctify them.

I wrote a book, Profane Waste, examining why people would destroy their own possessions.

So in the biblical view, the area or the land outside the Israelite camp is just common, profane land.

On the books of profane music which entered the convent, amour (love) was replaced by tambour (drum) or pandour.

Lily Allen's tweet was brief, profane, and expressed only her disbelief.

Moscow New cultural venues add a dash of the sacred and profane.

A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity.

Profane the name of God.

By 1400, the pretext of the play remained religious, but the theater was already profane (Hindley, 1965).

Using profane or offensive language.

And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end.

To violate the Holiness of; profane or desecrate.

But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.

And about love, I have it as a good faith, sacred, not profane.

But shun profane [and] vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

"Purple speech" is profane talk.

Or is it mostly "angry, profane and women-hating. . . music that plays on the worst stereotypes of black people, " as Bill Cosby harrumphs?

Tim. 4: 7 But the profane and old-womanish myths refuse, and exercise yourself unto godliness.

Your high science is sealed from the profane and vulgar, and so you become an object of envy and slander .

To use profane oaths; curse.

A profane word or phrase; a swear word.

Hence all animals and humans have a divine element in them that is covered by the ignorance and illusions of material or profane existence.

To violate the sacredness of; profane.

And they shall teach my people the difference between holy and profane, and shew them how to discern between clean and unclean.

The theory I bring forward is that he cannot do without the profane.

Eliade holds that human has two kinds of existing ways, the sacred and the profane.

Tim. 2: 16 But avoid profane, vain babblings, for they will advance to more ungodliness.

They talked about the real world that is outside, that is dirty, impure, profane versus academia, which is lofty, idealistic, sacred.

Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

Keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings (I Timothy 6: 20).

We should make the best use of everything or it will be a waste or a profane or irreverence.

Of course it is profane to belittle great music, great sculpture, great poetry or dancing, or to sneer at it;

Neither shall ye profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am the LORD which hallow you,

ROMEO If I profane with my unworthiest hand

an exclamation of surprise or wonder, (euphemism for the profane Jesus)

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called

39For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it;

6 Who has also tried to profane the temple. Him also we laid hold of and wanted to judge according to our law,

A Profane Wit: The Life Of John Wilmot, Earl Of Rochester