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 Samuel Johnson
In the endeavour to exclude from society all symptoms and tokens of the freethinking age, the moral taste grew alarmingly squeamish, and began to reject the most wholesome food as savouring of profaneness.
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
If I so muttered the liturgy, as to disguise its language, why did you join in so glaring a profaneness, for nearly seven years?
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby
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
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 An English Lady
