profaneness

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Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase and say, that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law; and cites 2 Stra.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

"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 Hoar, George Frisbie

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 Rigby, Nicholas

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 Norman, B. M.

It is true that when the Tatler appeared, that age of outrageous profaneness and licentiousness which followed the Restoration had passed away.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron