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Everything outside the temple, including the language that gets you thrown out of it.
means Either irreverent toward sacred things, or, more simply, ordinary and worldly rather than holy.
from From Latin profanus, literally 'before the temple' — outside the sacred space, where the unconsecrated crowd loitered.
Double lifeMeans both blasphemous swearing and merely secular, non-religious things.
Spatial rootThe 'fanum' was the shrine; pro-fane meant outside it.
Sacred oppositeSociologists pair it permanently with 'sacred' as twin categories.