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profane

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profane
1. not designed or used for religious purposes; secular
2. not initiated into the inner mysteries or sacred rites


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Initiate me into all those mysteries which profane eyes never beheld.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
To the Western world, life, save for the conventional hour or so set aside on the seventh day, is a thing profane.
A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context
The one finished by complete failure what he commenced in the grossest misconception; the other, by a path which could not possibly lead him astray, arrived at a triumph which is not the less glorious because hidden from the profane eyes of the multitude.
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