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单词 profaned
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profanedadj.n.

Brit. /prəˈfeɪnd/, U.S. /prəˈfeɪnd/, /proʊˈfeɪnd/
Forms: see profane v. and -ed suffix1; also 1600s prophand.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: profane v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < profane v. + -ed suffix1.
That has been desecrated, defiled, or treated with contempt. Occasionally also as n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > irreverence > [adjective] > not reverenced > desecrated or profaned
profaned?1440
violate1555
desecrateda1711
desecrate1873
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 847 Myn auctour, eek..Seith this prophaned thyng [L. res profanata] may nought auaile.
1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 11v Here looking on these holy rites with lewd prophaned eyes [L. oculis..profanis] king Pentheys moother first of al her foresaid sonne espies.
1600 C. G. Minte of Deformities sig. Biv All prophaned vice..Maskt in those honored robes are counted blest.
?a1634 A. Garden James VI (1709) 71 Incress thy Crouns, and with thy Courage clame, Prophaned Judas, and Jerusalem.
1755 G. Baretti tr. L. Ariosto in Introd. Italian Lang. 397 The impious King..burns the beautiful houses and the profaned temples.
1838 H. H. Milman in E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. iii. 120 The curious satire..in the works of Seneca, is the strongest remonstrance of profaned religion.
1908 H. James Portrait of Lady (rev. ed.) II. lii. 373 Her being there at all had the character of ugly evidence,..of profaned relics, of grim things produced in court.
1938 D. C. Peattie Prairie Grove xii. 75 In the yoshiwara the devouring maladies wait in the bodies of the profaned.
1974 Times 2 Oct. 15/7 The site in St. Luke's Gardens..was hallowed ground..in contrast to the profaned mass-burial place of our murdered compatriots.
1991 Portfolio Mag. Summer 15/1 An unfocused umwelt which is, depending on occasion, a sanctified romantic wilderness or a profaned and polluted vista.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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