Meaning and example
blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character
Desecration of the Holy Sabbath
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.018 places profanation in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 50.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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last 2 million years
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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