profaneness
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Mr. Binning considering the great confusions and lamentable divisions that prevailed in the church in his day, and the abounding immorality and profaneness of the age, was deeply weighed therewith.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
In the endeavour to exclude from society all symptoms and tokens of the freethinking age, the moral taste grew alarmingly squeamish, and began to reject the most wholesome food as savouring of profaneness.
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
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
It is stated that Bishop Morton condemned the profaneness of the company who had disturbed the service at the church.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
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
