profane
adjective
characterized by irreverence or contempt for God or sacred principles or things; irreligious.
profaneness
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a word derived from
profane.
Example Sentences
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In an age notorious for laxity and profaneness, it was only too obvious that great professions of tolerance were in very many cases only the fair-sounding disguise of flippant scepticism or shallow indifference.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.
From Misread Passage of Scriptures by James Baldwin Brown
Incidentally, the habit of Collier and his followers of giving excerpts to illustrate the profaneness and immorality of the stage produced an unexpected effect in at least one quarter.
From Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) by Anonymous
Our community frowns with indignation upon the profaneness of the duel, having its rise in this irrational point of honor.
From Public Speaking by Clarence Stratton
It was reported that the indiscriminate association of prisoners in them produced more vice, profaneness and demoralization than in the ordinary prisons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
