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profane 1. not designed or used for religious purposes; secular 2. not initiated into the inner mysteries or sacred rites How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Initiate me into all those mysteries which profane eyes never beheld. To the Western world, life, save for the conventional hour or so set aside on the seventh day, is a thing profane. 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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