profaneness

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It is not too late," said the old officer, "if you will listen calmly, and learn that there is no necessity for such profaneness as you have used.

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

If we listen to their conversation, virtue is praised, and vice is censured; piety is perhaps applauded, and profaneness condemned.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William

These plans were readily and cheerfully adopted by the boys, and in a short time, the vice of profaneness was, in a great degree, banished from the school.

From The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Abbott, Jacob

It is true that when the Tatler appeared, that age of outrageous profaneness and licentiousness which followed the Restoration had passed away.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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 Green, John Richard