• violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "Profane the name of God"
• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
• characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "Profane words"
• grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches'' Sabbath"; "Profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
• not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
• not sacred or concerned with religion; "sacred and Profane music"; "children being brought up in an entirely Profane environment"

'Profane' in other languages