profaneness

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His poem on the dutchess of Grafton’s lawsuit, after having rattled awhile with Juno and Pallas, Mars and Alcides, Cassiope, Niobe, and the Propetides, Hercules, Minos, and Rhadamanthus, at last concludes its folly with profaneness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

It is only by tracing them to the Roman Saturnalia that we can at all account for these grotesque sports—that extraordinary mixture of libertinism and profaneness, so long continued under Christianity.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

It is not too late," said the old officer, "if you will listen calmly, and learn that there is no necessity for such profaneness as you have used.

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

Without profaneness, and in all sincerity, they might have thanked God for the, to them, harmless recreation.

From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Lady, An English

Does it not occur to you, what a degree of profaneness would be committed in respect of them.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus