profaneness
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It was reported that the indiscriminate association of prisoners in them produced more vice, profaneness and demoralization than in the ordinary prisons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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
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
It is not too late," said the old officer, "if you will listen calmly, and learn that there is no necessity for such profaneness as you have used.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall
The domestic arrangements of such a woman as filled the capacious mind of the poet resemble, if I may say it without profaneness, those of Providence, whose under-agent she is.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
