Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PRO-FANE'LY
PRO-FANE'LY, adv.
- With irreverence to sacred things or names. The character of God profanely impeached. – Dwight.
- With abuse or contempt for any thing venerable. That proud scholar … speaks of Homer too profanely. – Broome.
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