profaneness
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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 William Hull
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
That is, because I admit that profaneness exists in the Church, therefore I consider it a token of the Church.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase, and says, 'that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,' and cites 2 Strange.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington
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 Titus Livius
