profane

rienaava

loukata pyhyyttä

profaani unclean Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
(w)

Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.

(ux)

The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.

a profane person, word, oath, or tongue

(..) the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane (..)

The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.

With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife, as he carved the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.