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Prophane

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Obsolete form of profane. alt-of, hypercorrect, obsolete

    "Sneerers and prophane wits may perhaps laugh at her first fright; yet my graver reader, when he considers the time of night, the summons from her bed, and the situation in which she found her master, will highly justify and applaud her conduct […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of profane. alt-of, obsolete

    "VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande."

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