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prophaneness

prophaneness is the obsolete spelling of profaneness.

Meaning of profaneness

Noun

profaneness (usually uncountable, plural profanenesses)

  1. (usually) The quality of being profane; profanity.
    • the […] heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks1644, William Prynne, A Breviate of the Life of William Laud

Origin of prophaneness

From prophane + -ness.

Questions about prophaneness

What is prophaneness the obsolete spelling of?
Prophaneness is the obsolete spelling of profaneness.

Words near prophaneness in the dictionary

  1. prophanation
  2. prophanations
  3. prophane
  4. prophaned
  5. prophanely
  6. prophaneness
  7. prophaner
  8. prophanes
  9. prophanest
  10. prophaning
  11. prophanities

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prophaneness (page history and authors); profaneness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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