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Profane:. I.i.84. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt. Profane (verb) 1 : to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt
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Profane: I.i.84.Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt
Profane (verb) • 1: to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt • 2: to debase by a wrong, unworthy, or vulgar use • Profane (adj.) • Adjective: 1) serving to debase or defile what is holy :irreverentb:obscene, vulgar • Profaner • profanely, • profaneness
pernicious: • From I.i. 86. • “What ho, You men, you beasts, /That quench the fire of your pernicious rage. . . “ • highly injurious or destructive :deadly. Pernicious anemia
Augmenting: • From I.i. 135 • “Many a morning hath he there been see, With tears augmentingthe fresh morning’s dew” • to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense. • per·ni·cious·lyadverb • per·ni·cious·nessnoun
Portent(ous): • From I.i. 144. • “Black and portentous must this humor prove\Unless good counsel may the cause remove.” • Adj: of, relating to, or constituting a foreshadow • Portent: (noun) something that foreshadows a coming event :omen , sign.. • por·ten·tous·ly adverb • por·ten·tous·ness noun
Posterity • From I.i.228 “She hath, and in that sparing [makes] huge waste; For beauty, starved with her severity, Cuts beauty off from all posterity” • all future generations • Noun • When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.Thomas Paine
Languish: • I.ii. 50 • “One desperate grief cures with another’s languish.” • to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated • to be or live in a state of depression or decreasing vitality.
Heretics: • I.ii. 98. • “Transparent heretics, be burnt for liars. • One fairer than my love? 1: a dissenter from established religious dogma
Esteem: • I.iii.76 “Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are already mothers.” • worth , value
Obscured: I.iii.91 “And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes. to make dark, dim, or indistinct;
Boisterous: • I.iv.26. “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like a thorn.” • a:coarse b:durable , strong c:massive; noisily turbulent :rowdy;