profaneness
- a word derived from profane.
Example Sentences
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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 More, Hannah
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.
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
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 Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
But higher up, where there is no profaneness or criminality, or gross and disgusting visible intemperance, what other evils are there?
From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles
