Crossword clues for profaner
profaner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Profaner \Pro*fan"er\, n.
One who treats sacred things with irreverence, or defiles
what is holy; one who uses profane language.
--Hooker.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: profane) n. One who profanes. A person who desecrates or defiles.
Usage examples of "profaner".
They looked to see issue some sailor seized for whistling of a Sabbath, some profane peasant who had presumed to wear pattens in church, some profaner peasant who had not doffed his hat to the Connetable, or some slip-shod militiaman who had gone to parade in his sabots, thereby offending the red-robed dignity of the Royal Court.
For six weeks,[18] the profaners of churches come to the hall and display their dance-house buffooneries, and the Convention has not only to put up with these, but also to take part in them.
The soldiers of the heavenly emperor had brushed aside the insane profaners in the course of which the governor had most regrettably gone to his ancestors.