profanation

To sanctify the day at church, and to trifle it away out of church, is profanation, and vitiates all.

Haggerstone and he were intimates were it not a profanation of the word, we should say friends.

But in this quiet place, upon this quiet night, and in the colonel's mood, it seemed like profanation.

It was in vain that the Muftis interposed, reprobating so great a profanation, and uttering warnings as to its consequences.