profaneness
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People have entirely left off the sin of profaneness; and, as to intemperance, there is very little of that.'
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various
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 Jacob Abbott
If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I am so far from defending it, that I disown it, totum hoc indictum volo.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
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
It was reported that the indiscriminate association of prisoners in them produced more vice, profaneness and demoralization than in the ordinary prisons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
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