profaneness
Example Sentences
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These plans were readily and cheerfully adopted by the boys, and in a short time, the vice of profaneness was, in a great degree, banished from the school.
From The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott
"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
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
He never fell into the scandalous and fashionable vice of profaneness.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
Without profaneness, and in all sincerity, they might have thanked God for the, to them, harmless recreation.
From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by An English Lady
