profanation
/prof-uh-ney-shuhn/US // ˌprɒf əˈneɪ ʃən //
亵渎,亵渎行为,亵渎罪,亵渎神明
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n.名词 noun
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- : the act of profaning; desecration; defilement; debasement.
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Examples
The limbs and members of the slain Christ were made the vehicle of revolting profanation.
He gazed and then he did not gaze at all—it seemed like a profanation.
He looked upon married life, with all its hallowed beauty, as a profanation for a priest.
Have not many, who have ended their days on the scaffold, traced their ruin to the profanation of the Sabbath?
Rarely, if ever, has there been a more ghastly profanation of the Holy Sacrament of Regeneration!
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