Profane vs Abusive - What's the difference?
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Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
* I. Disraeli
* Gibbon
Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or undue familiarity; blasphemous, impious. Hence, specifically; Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain; given to swearing; blasphemous; as, a profane person, word, oath, or tongue.
* Bible, 1 Timothy 1:9
A person or thing that is profane.
* 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 244:
(freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
To violate, as anything sacred; to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate; to pollute; as, to profane the name of God; to profane the Scriptures, or the ordinance of God.
* 1851 ,
To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal.
* I am ... necessitated to use the word Parliament improperly, according to the abusive acceptation thereof. - Fuller
(archaic) Catachrestic.
(archaic) Full of abuses; practicing abuse; containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse.
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Prone to ill treat by coarse, insulting words or by other ill usage; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous.
* An abusive lampoon. - A dictionary of the English language
(obsolete) Tending to deceive; fraudulent.
* An abusive treaty. -
(archaic) Given to misusing; also, full of abuses.
* The abusive prerogatives of his see. -
(obsolete) Given to misusing.
Being physically injurious; characterized by repeated violence.
Profane is a related term of abusive.
As a verb profane
is .As an adjective abusive is
wrongly used; perverted; misapplied; unjust; illegal .profane
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
- profane authors
- The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.
- a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
Synonyms
* (obscene) vulgar, inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, lewd * secular * temporal * worldly * unsanctified * unhallowed * unholy * irreligious * irreverent * ungodly * wicked * godless * impiousAntonyms
* holy * sacredNoun
(en noun)- The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
Verb
(profan)- With one mind, their intent eyes all fastened upon the old man’s knife, as he carved the chief dish before him. I do not suppose that for the world they would have profaned that moment with the slightest observation, even upon so neutral a topic as the weather.