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Profanation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement. countable, uncountable

    "those which mocke and condemne it, intend neverthelesse to wrong this noble vertue; but onely to condemne the abuse and profanation of so sacred a title[…]."

  2. 2
    degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening wordnet
  3. 3
    blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French prophanation, profanation, and its source, Late Latin profanatio, from the participle stem of Latin profānō.

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