Profanation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: profanationProfanation
The act of violating sacred things or of treating them with contempt or irreverence irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred desecration as the profanation of the Sabbath the profanation of a sanctuary the profanation of the name of God...
Profaneness
The quality or state of being profane especially the use of profane language...
Profanate
To profane...
Profanely
In a profane manner...
Profaner
One who treats sacred things with irreverence or defiles what is holy one who uses profane language...
Profane swearing
Profane swearing. See SWEARING....
Profaneness
Profaneness. See BLASPHEMY....
Desecration
The act of desecrating profanation condition of anything desecrated...
Impious
Not pious wanting piety irreligious irreverent ungodly profane wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being as an impious deed impious language...
Sacrilege
Sacrilege, larceny from a church. By s. 24, Larceny Act, 1916, breaking and entering any church, chapel, meeting-house, or other place of divine worship and committing any felony therein, or being therein and committing any felony therein, and breaking out of the same, is felony punishable by penal servitude or imprisonment. The offence was for a long time capital, the last execution having taken place in 1819.The act or an instance of desecrating or profaning a sacred thing, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1336....
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