profane oath
NOUN
dirty word
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NOUN
four-letter word
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STRONGEST
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In the ‘Gentleman’s Magazine’ for July 1751 we read that a woman convicted of uttering a profane oath and unable to defray the shilling penalty, was sentenced to ten days’ hard labour in Bridewell.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian