The act of profaning; desecration, blasphemous behaviour, defilement.
those which mocke and condemne it, intend neverthelesse to wrong this noble vertue; but onely to condemne the abuse and profanation of so sacred a title[…].
From Middle French prophanation, profanation, and its source, Late Latin profanatio, from the participle stem of Latin profānāre.
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