profaneness

The “family” edition of Shakespeare that he and his sister created, methodically stripping out the faintest trace of “profaneness or obscenity,” was for a while the best-selling edition of the Bard’s works.

He never fell into the scandalous and fashionable vice of profaneness.

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

Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase, and says, 'that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,' and cites 2 Strange.

We hope we shall hear no more cursing or profaneness from your mouths....