profaneness
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The "Cavalier interest," which was but "the badge and character of countenancing profaneness, disorder, and wickedness in all places," was crushed and powerless.
From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by John Richard Green
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
Incidentally, the habit of Collier and his followers of giving excerpts to illustrate the profaneness and immorality of the stage produced an unexpected effect in at least one quarter.
From Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) by Anonymous
There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
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 Isaac Disraeli
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