profaneness

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His best-known work is his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, 1698, a sharp and efficacious attack on the Post-Restoration drama.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage

That I may be preserved from Atheism, and Infidelity, Impiety and Profaneness, and in my Addresses to thee carefully avoid Irreverence and Ostentation, Formality and odious Hypocrisy.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George

In the spring of 1698 the rumblings against the excesses of the English stage broke into a roar with the publication of Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

From A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) by Anonymous

Profaneness and debauchery again prevailed, and the taverns were as well filled as the churches.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

In 1698 he published, to the disgust of all Drury and Lincoln's Inn, his 'Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, together with the Sense of Antiquity upon this Argument.'

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Wharton, Grace