profaneness
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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
You've made such strong alliances above, That 'twere profaneness in us laity To offer earthly aid.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Thomas Houston
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
There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
