profaneness
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
Without profaneness, and in all sincerity, they might have thanked God for the, to them, harmless recreation.
From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by An English Lady
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
These are certainly no improvement upon the customs of other days, for blind superstition is better than profaneness, and ignorance than open vice.
From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by B. M. Norman
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
