profanation

It was a profanation to put the thing into words.

Another - the reports breaking the silence like a profanation.

The physical scarcely entered into it, for such seemed profanation.

Even if I could do it, it would be profanation for me to play at being in love.

"This is profanation," he said harshly, looking up at last.

One can imagine how the idea of such a profanation would strike Joan or any other child in the village.

The sound of so many footfalls out there was Tightening, almost a profanation.

That would be for Pat an ultimate profanation, a blasphemy.

The profanation of the mushroom cult did not stop with the scientific investigations.

The bandit who had already begun to worry was worried more by the profanation.

'Well, then, I feel as if either would be a profanation.

To aim to convert a man by miracles, is a profanation of the soul.

Profanation of the Pillsbury family shall never cross my lips.

But complaint is profanation in the absence of gratitude.

Twelve years' hard labor for Communist activities and profanation of God's house.

If that is not profanation I should like to know what is!'

I have guarded, however, against any such profanation.

We object to the profanation of the spiritual body of the woman."

With a feeling as of profanation she again seized the offending photograph and flung it across the room into a corner.

Was this a profanation or an honest attempt to bring the Mysteries into the hearts and souls of all the court?

Computer networks, virtual helmets and suits already existed, but all this was only profanation.

And now the profanation of a sacred thing."

Accused of profanation and vandalism by the clergy, he was sent to jail for fifteen days.

If the profanation had been done on vessels containing consecrated hosts, the punishment was death.

For this terrible crime of profanation of all that is good in life, they must be hanged.