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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These are certainly no improvement upon the customs of other days, for blind superstition is better than profaneness, and ignorance than open vice.
From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by B. M. Norman
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 Samuel Johnson
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.
From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Henry Hetherington
"Damnation, John," interposed the professor, "how often have I told you the word is profaneness and not profanity?"
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
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 Knowles King
