Usually means: Treating sacred things with disrespect.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word profaning:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. profaning: Merriam-Webster
  2. profaning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. profaning: Vocabulary.com
  4. profaning: Wordnik
  5. profaning: Wiktionary
  6. Profaning, profaning: Dictionary.com
  7. Profaning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Profaning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. profaning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. profaning: FreeDictionary.org
  11. profaning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profaning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profaning: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  profanation

Similar:
profanatory, debauch, desecrate, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debase, demoralize, sacrilegious, outrage, more...

Opposite:
sanctifying, consecrating, blessing

Types:
desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege, more...

Adjectives:
impious, such, high, sacrilegious, wanton

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Similar:
profanatory, debauch, desecrate, vitiate, deprave, corrupt, debase, demoralize, sacrilegious, outrage, more...

Opposite:
sanctifying, consecrating, blessing

Types:
desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege, more...

Adjectives:
impious, such, high, sacrilegious, wanton



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