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Profane vs Debauch - What's the difference?

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Profane is a related term of debauch.


As verbs the difference between profane and debauch

is that profane is while debauch is to morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.

As a noun debauch is

an individual act of debauchery.

profane

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.
  • Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
  • * I. Disraeli
    • profane authors
  • * Gibbon
    • The profane wreath was suspended before the shrine.
  • 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.
    • a profane person, word, oath, or tongue
  • * Bible, 1 Timothy 1:9

    • Synonyms

    * (obscene) vulgar, inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, lewd * secular * temporal * worldly * unsanctified * unhallowed * unholy * irreligious * irreverent * ungodly * wicked * godless * impious

    Antonyms

    * holy * sacred

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or thing that is profane.
  • * 1796 , Matthew Lewis, The Monk , Folio Society 1985, p. 244:
    • The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted.
  • (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.

    • Verb

    (profan)
  • 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 ,
    • 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.
  • To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to make a base employment of; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

    • Antonyms

    * consecrate * sanctify

    Related terms

    * profanation * profanity English transitive verbs ----

    debauch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • An individual act of debauchery.
  • *1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
    • Greene died of a debauch ; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
  • * 1913 , , The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu , ch. 25:
    • [T]he room probably was one which he actually used for opium debauches .
  • An orgy.
  • * 1955 , , Catch-22 , ch. 13:
    • [T]here were always the gay and silly sensual young girls that Yossarian had found and brought there and those that the sleepy enlisted men returning to Pianosa after their own exhausting seven-day debauch had brought there.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce.
  • * 1727 , , The History of the Devil , ch. 9:
    • But the Devil had met with too much Success in his first Attempts, not to go on with his general Resolution of debauching the Minds of Men, and bringing them off from God.
  • To debase (something); to lower the value of (something).
  • * 2014 March 23, , " Peter Hitchens's Blog: 23 March 2014 1:41 AM," The Mail on Sunday (UK) (retrieved 18 April 2014):
    • [S]aving of all kinds is pointless when interest is microscopic and state-sponsored inflation is debauching the currency.

    Derived terms

    * debauchee * debaucher * debauchery * debauchment

    Related terms

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