profaneness
Example Sentences
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What once would have been punished as profaneness and blasphemy, is no longer noticed by the gentle guardians of the law, and treason has almost ceased to be a crime.
From On Calvinism by William Hull
That is, because I admit that profaneness exists in the Church, therefore I consider it a token of the Church.
From Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman
You've made such strong alliances above, That 'twere profaneness in us laity To offer earthly aid.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
Does it not occur to you, what a degree of profaneness would be committed in respect of them.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
If I so muttered the liturgy, as to disguise its language, why did you join in so glaring a profaneness, for nearly seven years?
From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Nicholas Rigby
