profanation

n. 渎神, 玷污, 亵渎

发音

UK /pɹɒfəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
其它

词形变化

profanations 复数 profanations

别名

prophanation

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

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

    可数 不可数

    […] but there is a time and a season for all things, and we look upon such attempts as that before us, with a certain portion of respect for a good intention, but as a lamentable want of judgment and good taste, not to speak of a familiarity with the phraseology of Scripture, little short of profanation.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

blasphemy sacrilege desecration

上位词 4

violation degradation debasement irreverence

词源

From Middle French prophanation, profanation, and its source, Late Latin profanatio, from the participle stem of Latin profānō.

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