单词 | profanize |
释义 | profanizev. rare. transitive. To make profane (in various senses); = profane v. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > cause sacrilege [verb (transitive)] defoulc1384 profanea1425 depravea1529 defile1535 unhallow1535 profanate1554 execratea1572 profanizate1578 sacrilege1578 unconsecrate1598 exaugurate1600 defoil1601 dishallow1624 desecrate1675 disenhallow1846 profanizea1876 a1876 J. Addis Elizabethan Echoes (1879) 92 How he put poison in the Sacred Chalice, And profanized the Holy Mysteries. 1954 R. Gordis Song of Songs 5 Deuteronomic theologians are then assumed to have profanized the orginally sacred text, so that today it appears as a collection of erotic lyrics of a secular character. 2000 Washington Post (Nexis) 15 Oct. x5 God's Name in Vain seems to undermine its own premise—that religion and political life can coexist... In seeking to shore up the foundations for prophetic faith, [Stephen L.] Carter comes..close to ‘profanizing’ political life himself. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1876 |
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