profaneness

Example Sentences

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

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

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 Thirlwall, Connop

To some it may seem a profaneness to turn those old legends into verse.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

It is true that when the Tatler appeared, that age of outrageous profaneness and licentiousness which followed the Restoration had passed away.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron