profane words

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• profane — adj 1 Profane, secular, lay, temporal mean not dedicated or set apart for religious ends or uses. Profane specifically implies an opposition to sacred (see HOLY) in this sense it is purely descriptive and not derogatory; thus, profane history is… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• profane — 1 adjective 1 showing disrespect for God or for holy things, using rude words, or religious words wrongly: a profane action | uttering profane curses 2 formal not religious, ordinary or holy but dealing with human life: sacred and profane art… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• profane — [[t]prəfe͟ɪn, AM proʊ [/t]] profanes, profaning, profaned 1) ADJ GRADED Profane behaviour shows disrespect for a religion or religious things. [FORMAL] ...profane language. 2) ADJ Something that is profane is concerned with everyday life rather… …   English dictionary

• profane — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, Philistine, Rabelaisian, abuse, abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, bad, bawdy, befoul, blasphemous, blue, calumniatory, calumnious, carnal, carnal minded, coarse, comminatory, commit sacrilege,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• Seven dirty words — The seven dirty words are seven English language words that comedian George Carlin listed in his monologue Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television, released in 1972 on his album Class Clown . At the time, the words were generally considered… …   Wikipedia

• Sacred-profane dichotomy — The dichotomy between the sacred and the profane has been identified by French sociologist Émile Durkheim as the central characteristic of religion: religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things , that is to say …   Wikipedia

• Sacred–profane dichotomy — French sociologist Émile Durkheim considered the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane to be the central characteristic of religion: religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things… …   Wikipedia

• Literary or Profane Legends —     Literary or Profane Legends     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Literary or Profane Legends     In the period of national origins history and legend are inextricably mingled. In the course of oral transmission historic narrative necessarily becomes …   Catholic encyclopedia

• fighting words doctrine — The First Amendment doctrine that holds that certain utterances are not constitutionally protected as free speech if they are inherently likely to provoke a violent response from the audience. N.A.A.C.P. v. Clairborne Hardware Co., Miss., 458 U.S …   Black's law dictionary

• fighting words doctrine — The First Amendment doctrine that holds that certain utterances are not constitutionally protected as free speech if they are inherently likely to provoke a violent response from the audience. N.A.A.C.P. v. Clairborne Hardware Co., Miss., 458 U.S …   Black's law dictionary

• cursing — Profane swearing, sometimes a criminal offense. 12 Am J2d Blas § 10. A public or common nuisance where the profane words are uttered in a public place. 12 Am J2d Blas § 11 …   Ballentine's law dictionary