profaneness
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Mr. Binning considering the great confusions and lamentable divisions that prevailed in the church in his day, and the abounding immorality and profaneness of the age, was deeply weighed therewith.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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
To some it may seem a profaneness to turn those old legends into verse.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
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 John Richard Green
Incidentally, the habit of Collier and his followers of giving excerpts to illustrate the profaneness and immorality of the stage produced an unexpected effect in at least one quarter.
From Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) by Anonymous
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