单词 | profanatory |
释义 | profanatoryadj. Of the nature of or characterized by profanity; profaning. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > [adjective] > committing sacrilege or sacrilegious sacrileging?1554 sacrilegious1582 unsacred1608 desecrating1675 profanatory1815 desecrativea1861 1815 J. Black tr. A. W. Schlegel Course Lect. Dramatic Art I. iv. 102 Apollo returns from the temple, and expels them from his sanctuary as profanatory beings [Ger. verhasste, sein Heiligthum entweihende Wesen]. 1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xxvi. 236 Every one now had tasted the wassail-cup except Paulina, whose pas de fée, ou de fantasie, nobody thought of interrupting to offer so profanatory a draught. 1876 S. S. Cox Why we Laugh xxi. 316 I had the honor once to propose to inflate the currency by moving to stamp all ones as twos, all fives as tens, etc., whereat a brilliant member intimated that I was a noun with a profanatory prefix. 1985 Jrnl. Philos. 82 493 Sartre's reversals are thus often profanatory, destructive rather than constructive. 2000 Guardian 17 June (Saturday section) 10/5 One has the sense that he feels scientific truth is like the ark of the covenant: it must be kept from profanatory contact with the world outside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1815 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。