What is another word for profanation?

Pronunciation: [pɹəfɐnˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Profanation refers to the act of defiling or desecrating something sacred or holy. There are several synonyms for the word profanation, including sacrilege, blasphemy, desecration, and irreverence. These words all describe actions or attitudes that disrespect or violate religious or sacred objects, spaces, or beliefs. Other synonyms for profanation include defilement, contamination, and pollution, which can refer to more general acts of ruining or corrupting something pure or pristine. Regardless of the specific word used, the concept of profanation always involves a disregard for what is considered sacred or divine, and carries a weighty moral or spiritual connotation.

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Profanation is the act of disrespecting something that is considered sacred or holy. Some antonyms for the word profanation could include reverence, veneration, sanctity, holiness, piety, and devoutness. When something is revered, it is held in high esteem and treated with great respect. Veneration and sanctity refer to the idea of something being sacred and deserving of reverence. Holiness is a quality that describes something that is pure and divine. Piety is a term that signifies devotion to religious beliefs or practices. Devoutness refers to an individual's commitment to a religious cause. Each of these antonyms represents a positive and revered opposite to the negative notion of profanation.

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Usage examples for Profanation

He slipped back into the water to examine further; a sense of profanation, not to be shaken off, subdued his spirit, and constrained him to diffident movement through the exceeding beauty of those jewelled aisles.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
To divulge the traditions relative to this altar would, it seems, be an high profanation.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant
At first to speak of it as having qualifications was a profanation, and to find them out came as a disillusionment.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black

Famous quotes with Profanation

  • There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
    Marquis de Sade
  • In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
    Jorge Luis Borges
  • But ere the laughter died from out the rear, Anger in front saw profanation near; Jubal was but a name in each man's faith For glorious power untouched by that slow death Which creeps with creeping timeJubal was not a name to wed with mockery. Two rushed upon him: two, the most devout In honor of great Jubal, thrust him out, And beat him with their flutes.The immortal name of Jubal filled the sky, While Jubal lonely laid him down to die.
    George Eliot
  • "In God We Trust." Now then, after that legend had remained there forty years or so, unchallenged and doing no harm to anybody, the President suddenly "threw a fit" the other day, as the popular expression goes, and ordered that remark to be removed from our coinage. Mr. Carnegie granted that the matter was not of consequence, that a coin had just exactly the same value without the legend as with it, and he said he had no fault to find with Mr. Roosevelt's action but only with his expressed reasons for the act. The President had ordered the suppression of that motto because a coin carried the name of God into improper places, and this was a profanation of the Holy Name. Carnegie said the name of God is used to being carried into improper places everywhere and all the time, and that he thought the President's reasoning rather weak and poor. I thought the same, and said, "But that is just like the President. If you will notice, he is very much in the habit of furnishing a poor reason for his acts while there is an excellent reason staring him in the face, which he overlooks. There was a good reason for removing that motto; there was, indeed, an unassailably good reason — in the fact that the motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar–mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease. Take an instance: the removal of the motto fetched out a clamor from the pulpit; little groups and small conventions of clergymen gathered themselves together all over the country, and one of these little groups, consisting of twenty-two ministers, put up a prodigious assertion unbacked by any quoted statistics and passed it unanimously in the form of a resolution: the assertion, to wit, that this is a Christian country. Why, Carnegie, so is hell. Those clergymen know that, inasmuch as "Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few — few — are they that enter in thereat" has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.
    Mark Twain

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