profaneness

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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 Newman, John Henry

The mediæval mind was oppressed by a sense of the foreignness and profaneness of Nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various

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 Houston, Thomas

Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase, and says, 'that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,' and cites 2 Strange.

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Hetherington, Henry

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