Definition of "profaning" []

• Present participle of profane. (verb)

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• "Here is the great dishonour they had done to God in profaning his sanctuary; they made the images of their counterfeit deities, which they set up in rivalship with God, and which are here called their abominations and their detestable things (for so they were to God, and so they should have been to them), and these they set up in"
• "Therefore it is here called profaning the name of their God; for it looked as if they thought they were under greater obligations to Moloch than to"
• "Time and again the Great Kings punished uprisings by destroying local temples and profaning sacred symbols, only increasing the bitter resentment of the natives."