profaneness
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If I so muttered the liturgy, as to disguise its language, why did you join in so glaring a profaneness, for nearly seven years?
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby
Our community frowns with indignation upon the profaneness of the duel, having its rise in this irrational point of honor.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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 Thomas W. Allies
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 Samuel Johnson
