Noun: profane
| Singular | profane |
| Plural | profanes |
Sample Sentences
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The nuns were employed in religious duties established in honour of St Clare, and to which no profane was ever admitted. [1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 244:]
Nouns inflected like profane
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French prophane, from Latin profānus (“not religious, unclean”), from pro- (“instead of”) + fānum (“temple”). See: Latin Nouns '
profānus'.