profanate

Meanings

verbprofanate (third-person singular simple present profanates, present participle profanating, simple past and past participle profanated)

present singular third person profanates · participle present profanating · participle past profanated · past profanated

To profane; to make profane.
In his play, Mr. Sobol insulted the honor of the Jewish victims and profanated their memory.
1989 July 2, “The Holocaust: Of Plays and Playwrights”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2015

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Learned borrowing from Classical Latin profānāt-, the past participial stem of profānō. By surface analysis, profane + -ate.

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