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say it: praw-fuh-NAY-shuhn
profanation is a noun meaning "blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character". It is pronounced /ˌpɹɔfəˈneɪʃən/ — praw-fuh-NAY-shuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
“desecration of the Holy Sabbath”
degradation of something worthy of respect; cheapening
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for profanation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.