profaneness

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Our community frowns with indignation upon the profaneness of the duel, having its rise in this irrational point of honor.

From Public Speaking by Stratton, Clarence

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

Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase and say, that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law; and cites 2 Stra.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

His poem on the dutchess of Grafton’s lawsuit, after having rattled awhile with Juno and Pallas, Mars and Alcides, Cassiope, Niobe, and the Propetides, Hercules, Minos, and Rhadamanthus, at last concludes its folly with profaneness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

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 Hall, S. C., Mrs.