profaneness
Example Sentences
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It is only by tracing them to the Roman Saturnalia that we can at all account for these grotesque sports—that extraordinary mixture of libertinism and profaneness, so long continued under Christianity.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
The domestic arrangements of such a woman as filled the capacious mind of the poet resemble, if I may say it without profaneness, those of Providence, whose under-agent she is.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
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
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
He never fell into the scandalous and fashionable vice of profaneness.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
