profaneness

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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

There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

"Damnation, John," interposed the professor, "how often have I told you the word is profaneness and not profanity?"

From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie

But Peter alone replies, and not only so, but condemns his profaneness, enlarges on his guilt, and solemnly declares that the gifts of God are not purchaseable with money.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.

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 Johnson, Samuel