profaneness
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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
That is, because I admit that profaneness exists in the Church, therefore I consider it a token of the Church.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
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
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
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
