profaneness

Example Sentences

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He never fell into the scandalous and fashionable vice of profaneness.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.

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 More, Hannah

In an age notorious for laxity and profaneness, it was only too obvious that great professions of tolerance were in very many cases only the fair-sounding disguise of flippant scepticism or shallow indifference.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)

Does it not occur to you, what a degree of profaneness would be committed in respect of them.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

What once would have been punished as profaneness and blasphemy, is no longer noticed by the gentle guardians of the law, and treason has almost ceased to be a crime.

From On Calvinism by Hull, William