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1 Profanation -- rank: 1000

Profanation definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary PROFANA'TION, n. [L. profano ... or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; as the profanation of the sabbath by sports, amusements or unnecessary labor; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God by swearing, jesting, etc. 2. The act of treating with abuse or disrespect. 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. WordNet ... of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege] 2: degradation of something worthy of ...

2 Violation -- rank: 532

... and promises; a violation of vows. 3. Act of irreverence; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as the violation of ... technicalities of play b. an act of irreverence or desecration ; profanation c. disturbance, interruption d. rape 2, ravishment Webster's 1913 ... my faith.'' --Shak. (b) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of ... 1. Interruption. 2. Infringement, transgression, breaking, breach, non-observance. 3. Profanation, desecration pollution. 4. Ravishment, ravishing, rape, constupration, defloration, defilement, stupration ... resistance, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pillaging, pity, pollution, poor stewardship, priapism, profanation, profaning, prostitution, rape, ravage, ravishment, recusancy, riot, rioting, sacking, sacrilege ...

3 Desecration -- rank: 476

... of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege] Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa 1717 ... Desecration Des`e*cra"tion, n. The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see desecrate Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Profanation, pollution, perversion to unholy uses, sacrilegious treatment. Moby Thesaurus abomination ... mismanagement, misusage, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pity, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, profaneness, profanity, prostitution, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scandal, shame, terrible thing, violation

4 Sacrilege -- rank: 410

... of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle English ... corresponding form hierosulema. Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Profanation, desecration, violation. Moby Thesaurus abomination, abuse, atrocity, befouling, befoulment, blasphemousness ... impiety, impiousness, infamy, irreverence, maltreatment, misuse, offense, outrage, perversion, pity, profanation, profaneness, profanity, prostitution, sacrilegiousness, scandal, secularization, shame, sin, terrible thing ...

5 Abuse -- rank: 324

... ravish, deflour. II. n. 1. Misapplication, misuse, misemployment, dishonor, dishonoring, profanation, prostitution, desecration, pollution, perversion, ill-use. 2. Maltreatment, outrage, ill ... on, poison, pollute, pollution, poor stewardship, prejudice, presume upon, priapism, profanation, profane, profanity, prostitute, prostitution, rag, rail at, railing, rape, rate ...

6 Blasphemy -- rank: 324

... of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -mies) Date ... excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, impiety, imprecation, indignity, insult, malison, malocchio, profanation, profaneness, profanity, proscription, sacrilege, sacrilegiousness, scurrility, swearing, thundering, violation, vituperation ...

7 Violence -- rank: 324

... 2. injury by or as if by distortion, infringement, or profanation ; outrage 3. a. intense, turbulent, or furious and often destructive ... to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault. Do violence to do man ...

8 Prostitution -- rank: 324

... s Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Misuse, abuse, perversion, profanation. 2. Unlawful sexual intercourse (on the part of a woman ... crime, pandering, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pimping, poisoning, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, protection racket, racket, shady dealings, solicitation, soliciting, streetwalking, suppuration, the ...

9 Pity -- rank: 205

... leniency, lenientness, lenity, melancholy, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, misfortune, moderateness, patience, profanation, rue, ruth, sacrilege, sadness, scandal, shame, sin, softness, sorrow, sympathize ...

10 Pilfering -- rank: 205

... misusage, misuse, peculation, perversion, pilferage, pinching, poaching, pollution, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution, scrounging, shoplifting, snatching, sneak thievery, snitching, stealage, stealing, swindle ...

11 Perversion -- rank: 205

... perjury, philosophism, pilfering, plausibility, plausibleness, poisoning, pollution, poor stewardship, prevarication, profanation, prostitution, psychopathia sexualis, psychosexual disorder, rationalization, self-contradiction, sex crime ...

12 LORD'S SUPPER; (EUCHARIST) -- rank: 205

... 55 AD), was called forth in rebuke of the scandalous profanation of the Eucharist at Corinth. It gives us another tradition ...

13 LEVITICAL CITIES -- rank: 205

... the protection of the holiness of the temple from all profanation; and in the realm of the ideal, the means are ...

14 infamy -- rank: 205

... monstrosity, notoriety, notoriousness, obliquity, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrage, peccancy, pity, profanation, reprobacy, revulsion, sacrilege, scandal, shame, shamefulness, sin, stigma, terrible thing ...

15 Inviolableness -- rank: 205

... Webster's 1828 Dictionary INVI'OLABLENESS INVI'OLABLY, adv. Without profanation; without breach or failure; as a sanctuary inviolably sacred; to ...