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Profanation

Profanation meaning

The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.

Example sentences (2)

Proscriptions against homosexual behavior are well known (see here, here, here), so homosexuals calling themselves married is profanation.

Once seen, Artemis got revenge on Actaeon: she forbade him speech — if he tried to speak, he would be changed into a stag — for the unlucky profanation of her virginity's mystery.