profaneness
Example Sentences
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These are certainly no improvement upon the customs of other days, for blind superstition is better than profaneness, and ignorance than open vice.
From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by B. M. Norman
If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I am so far from defending it, that I disown it, totum hoc indictum volo.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
You've made such strong alliances above, That 'twere profaneness in us laity To offer earthly aid.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
They were likewise solemnly engaged to employ their official influence and authority to put away systems that had been abjured in the National vows,—Popery, Prelacy and Erastianism, and to discourage all profaneness and ungodliness.
From The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony by Thomas Houston
