PROFANE vs SECULAR: NOUN
- A person not a Mason.
- A person or thing that is profane.
- A member of the secular clergy.
- A layperson.
- L. A layman.
- An ecclesiastic, such as a parish priest, who lives in the world and not in a monastery, is not subject to any monastic order or rule, and is bound only to celibacy; a secular priest: opposed to religious or regular.
- An unordained church officer.
- A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
- A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
- Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
- A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
PROFANE vs SECULAR: ADJECTIVE
- Not concerned with or devoted to religion
- Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
- Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
- Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; irreverent; impious.
- Unclean; impure; polluted; unholy.
- Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, religious, or inspired.
- Vulgar; coarse.
- Not admitted into a body of secret knowledge or ritual; uninitiated.
- Nonreligious in subject matter, form, or use; secular.
- Marked by contempt or irreverence for what is sacred.
- Characterized by profanity or cursing
- Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- Not sacred or concerned with religion
- Not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled
- Lasting or persisting for a long time.
- Relating to or advocating secularism.
- Not bound by the full monastic rule of a religious order. Used of clergy.
- Not relating to religion or to a religious body; nonreligious.
- Worldly rather than spiritual.
- Concerning those not members of the clergy
- Occurring or observed once in an age or century, as games in ancient Rome.
- Characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
- Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
- Not concerned with or devoted to religion
- Of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
- Unperturbed over time.
- Of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion.
- Centuries-old, ancient.
- Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
- Happening once in an age or century.
- Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
- Temporal; something that is worldly or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- Not specifically religious.
- A hymn or poem composed for the secular games, or sung or rehearsed at those games.
- Any music or songs not adapted to sacred uses.
- Games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like.
- Belonging to the laity; lay; not clerical.
- Of or relating to characteristics of astronomical phenomena that change slowly over time.
- Not regular; not bound by monastic vows or rules; not confined to a monastery, or subject to the rules of a religious community.
- Of or pertaining to this present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to temporal as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly.
- Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time.
- Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
- The algebraic or numerical expression of the magnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for.
PROFANE vs SECULAR: VERB
- Violate the sacred character of a place or language
- Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- N/A
PROFANE vs SECULAR: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To treat with irreverence.
- To put to an improper, unworthy, or degrading use; abuse.
- To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute
- To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
- N/A
PROFANE vs SECULAR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To speak or behave blasphemously or profanely.
- To make known; make common: said of something confined to an initiated few.
- To put to a wrong use; employ basely or unworthily.
- To treat as if not sacred or deserving reverence; violate, as anything sacred; treat with irreverence, impiety, or contempt; pollute; desecrate.
- Impious, Atheistic, etc. (see irreligious); irreverent, sacrilegious.
- Synonyms Temporal, unhallowed, unholy.
- Not initiated into certain religious rites; hence, of less dignity or standing; inferior; common.
- Irreverent toward God or holy things; speaking or spoken, acting or acted, in manifest or implied contempt of sacred things; blasphemous: as, profane language; profane swearing.
- Not sacred, or not devoted to sacred purposes; not possessing any peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; secular: as, a profane place; profane history (that is, history other than Biblical); profane authors.
- Synonyms Temporal, etc. see worldly.
- Living in the world, not in the cloister; hence, not bound by monastic vows or rules, nor subject to a monastic order: used especially of parish priests and other non-monastic clergy, as distinguished from the monastic or regular clergy.
- Lay, as opposed to clerical; civil. See def. 4.
- Of or pertaining to the things of time or of this world, and dissociated from or having no concern with religious, spiritual, or sacred matters or uses; connected with or relating to the world or its affairs; concerned with mundane or temporal matters; temporal; worldly; profane: as. secular affairs; the secular press; secular education; secular music.
- Living for an age or ages; permanent.
- Going on from age to age; accomplished or taking place in the course of ages; continued through an indefinite but long period of time; not recurrent or periodical, so far as known: as, secular change of the mean annual temperature; the secular cooling or refrigeration of the globe; the secular inequality in the motion of a planet.
- Celebrated or occurring once in an age or a century.
- Of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
PROFANE vs SECULAR: RELATED WORDS
- Unholy, Pervert, Laic, Secularized, Worldly, Debauch, Deprave, Desecrate, Debase, Violate, Dirty, Unhallowed, Sacrilegious, Blasphemous, Irreverent
- Layman, Popular, Ancient, Unholy, Temporal, Civilian, Ethical, Civil, Worldly, Religious, Secularism, Secularist, Lay, Profane, Laic
PROFANE vs SECULAR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Secular, Unholy, Pervert, Laic, Secularized, Worldly, Debauch, Deprave, Desecrate, Violate, Dirty, Unhallowed, Sacrilegious, Blasphemous, Irreverent
- Layman, Popular, Ancient, Unholy, Temporal, Civilian, Ethical, Civil, Worldly, Religious, Secularism, Secularist, Lay, Profane, Laic
PROFANE vs SECULAR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Profane, threatening, embarrassing, harassing, bullying or racist material.
- Those that were profane, and strangers to God.
- Profane, abusive or obscene materials are not allowed.
- Profane or sexually explicit submissions are not considered.
- The word that best describes them is profane.
- Never for any vulgar, profane or earthly goal.
- Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
- What does it mean to profane the covenant?
- Profane Language: No person operating a public passenger vehicle shall use any profane or obscene language or disturb the peace in any way.
- It would be almost, profane to speak of them in the company of profane men.
- The Preamble establishes India as a Secular State.
- He was way too secular for their liking.
- If you want more control over when your employees can receive the annuity proceeds, you might place the secular annuity inside a secular trust.
- New Delhi calls for a secular democratic Bangladesh to emerge out of the forthcoming polls while Washington calls the term secular a political buzzword.
- As far as secular service providers are concerned, they need not be under the same obligation precisely because they are secular.
- Many of the norms imposed by the institution became impossible to justify in a purely secular context and in secular terms.
- The utilization of Christian or Biblical examples to demonstrate secular points, where a secular example would do equally well, is not faith integration.
- However, the distinction between sacred and secular was never explicit in Islam, so it is not only a secular contract.
- From a purely secular perspective, I can understand the secular push for homosexual rights.
- However, not all legally secular states are completely secular in practice.
PROFANE vs SECULAR: QUESTIONS
- Does Al Green mix the sacred and profane in his music?
- Is it a federal law to broadcast indecent or profane programming?
- Are there any profane terms that come from Ancient Greek?
- Why do slumbering Christians profane the name of Jesus Christ?
- What does the Bible say about profane and silly Fables?
- How does the Evangelist gain +4 sacred or profane bonus?
- What does the Bible say about profane and idle babblings?
- What is the offence of indecent or profane language?
- What does profane because of improper entrance mean?
- Is the sacred and profane blurred by secularization?
- What is secular equilibrium in uranium ore deposit?
- Did the Protestant Reformation lead to secular government?
- What is the secular homeschool community of Virginia?
- Can Indian literature evolve from secular to religious?
- What is the Iowa City secular homeschool association?
- Why don't Secular Franciscans stay in fraternities?
- Is there tension between secular headwinds and tailwinds?
- Can religion coexist with secular American culture?
- What do secular humanists believe about Christianity?
- Does religious disagreement defeat secular beliefs?