Word Meanings - PROFANATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation

Additional info about word: PROFANATION

1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God. 2. The act of treating with abuse or disrespect, or with undue publicity, or lack of delicacy. 'T were profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Donne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFANATION)

• Violence
• Vehemence
• impetuosity
• force
• rape
• outrage
• rage
• profanation
• injustice
• fury
• infringement
• fierceness
• oppression

Related words: (words related to PROFANATION)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• IMPETUOSITY
  1. The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence. 2. Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper. Shak.
• OPPRESSION
  1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind;
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• VIOLENCE
  1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• OUTRAGE
  To rage in excess of. Young.
• FORCED
  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
• PROFANATION
  1. The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation
• FORCELESS
  Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
• INFRINGEMENT
  1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.
• VEHEMENCE
  1. The quality pr state of being vehement; impetuous force; impetuosity; violence; fury; as, the vehemence. 2. Violent ardor; great heat; animated fervor; as, the vehemence of love, anger, or other passions. I . . . tremble at his vehemence of
• FORCE PUMP
  A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston. A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump,
• FORCER
  1. One who, or that which, forces or drives. The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
• FORCEMEAT
  Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• OVERFORCE
  Excessive force; violence.
• AFFORCE
  To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.
• REENFORCEMENT
  1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.
• ENFORCED
  Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.
• REENFORCED CONCRETE
  Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.