profaneness
Example Sentences
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It is stated that Bishop Morton condemned the profaneness of the company who had disturbed the service at the church.
From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William
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 Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Green, John Richard
He never fell into the scandalous and fashionable vice of profaneness.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
If we listen to their conversation, virtue is praised, and vice is censured; piety is perhaps applauded, and profaneness condemned.
From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William
