profaneness

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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 Disraeli, Isaac

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 Binning, Hugh

What once would have been punished as profaneness and blasphemy, is no longer noticed by the gentle guardians of the law, and treason has almost ceased to be a crime.

From On Calvinism by Hull, William

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

Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah