profane
verb/prəˈfeɪn/
/prəˈfeɪn/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they profane | /prəˈfeɪn/ /prəˈfeɪn/ |
| he / she / it profanes | /prəˈfeɪnz/ /prəˈfeɪnz/ |
| past simple profaned | /prəˈfeɪnd/ /prəˈfeɪnd/ |
| past participle profaned | /prəˈfeɪnd/ /prəˈfeɪnd/ |
| -ing form profaning | /prəˈfeɪnɪŋ/ /prəˈfeɪnɪŋ/ |
- profane something to treat something holy with a lack of respectWord Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘heathen’): from Old French prophane, from Latin profanus ‘outside the temple, not sacred’, from pro- (from Latin pro ‘before’) + fanum ‘temple’.
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