Profanation is not the most popular word in the world. So the question arises, what does it mean? Let's talk about the meaning and synonyms.
Meaning
Involuntary distortion of a lofty idea is profanity. Moreover, the adjective “high” plays a key role in the definition. The misuse of things, such as buckets, is not profanity. Another thing is when it comes to such lofty phenomena as confession, faith, Christianity or science. Moreover, profanity is a misunderstanding that is rooted in a person's lack of knowledge about a particular area.
The layman and the coryphaeus
In Russian there is also a concept related to the word we are considering. An ignoramus is a person who does not have any baggage of cultural knowledge, in other words, an ignoramus.
Corypheus, on the contrary, is an outstanding figure in any field of science or culture.
If we look at an example, it will immediately become clear what is meant by certain concepts. Let us take such a sacrament as confession. The priest, if he is real, then the coryphaeus, that is, he knows the Holy Scripture and all the subtleties of the procedure by heart. Profan is, for example,a new Russian or a businessman who considers confession a formality, only an obstacle on the path to salvation. This is the difference between a luminary and a layman: one knows the subject very well and thinks that he has not yet discovered all the secrets, while the other does not really know anything, but does not particularly strive to comprehend the essence, but why? He is so good. So, we understood that profanity is a distortion of ideas. Moving on to the related verb.
Profane - how to understand it?
There's nothing complicated here. To profane means to offend some lofty idea with one's attitude or action. For example, it is known that Alexander VI - the Pope (in the world of Rodrigo Borgia) - sold indulgences, and the canonization of certain people depended on the welfare of their relatives. Moreover, the role of real spiritual feats in the negotiations was minimal. Similar conversations can be found in Mario Puzo's historical novel The First Don. Of course, such actions of the pope will profane the entire institution of faith. This example helps to understand what profanity is.
How to get rid of distortion?
Unfortunately, it is impossible to defeat all kinds of curvature in the mass, because the world is imperfect. And these are not general words, but a statement of fact. Everyone knows that not only the temple of faith, but also the temple of science is being distorted: dissertations are defended that should not pass a rigorous assessment, state-funded places in universities are distributed not among the most talented and deserving guys and girls, but among the we althiest. Butit has always been so, there is nothing surprising in this, a little sad, but what can you do. But such facts make victory in any field doubly valuable if a person achieves it himself.
Already having an idea of what the word "profanity" means, we can say that the social vices of society cannot be overcome alone. Therefore, it is necessary to do what depends on a person: you need to eradicate your own ignorance, from a layman to become a luminary in spite of everything. Even if the title of "knowledgeable person" is only a reputation among comrades and friends, and not an official title.
There is always a lot of things in the world that profane high ideas with their existence, but you should not pay attention to the unsightly reality. You just have to keep moving forward no matter what. Bend your line. Let everyone around do it wrong, but a person led by a lofty goal must oppose himself to the whole world. Someone will say: “This is all a romantic setting! Such beliefs do not work in reality!” So be it, but life without a dream is boring and unbearable.
Profanation (the meaning of the term has already been revealed earlier) is what a romantic hero should first of all fight and fight if he wants to succeed in life. And now he knows his enemy by sight.
