profaneness
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The mediæval mind was oppressed by a sense of the foreignness and profaneness of Nature.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various
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 Mrs. S. C. Hall
Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase and say, that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law; and cites 2 Stra.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
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
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