profaneness

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Incidentally, the habit of Collier and his followers of giving excerpts to illustrate the profaneness and immorality of the stage produced an unexpected effect in at least one quarter.

From Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704) by Anonymous

There is something very much nobler here than in Esau's profaneness.

From Misread Passage of Scriptures by Brown, James Baldwin

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 Thirlwall, Connop

People have entirely left off the sin of profaneness; and, as to intemperance, there is very little of that.'

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various

It was reported that the indiscriminate association of prisoners in them produced more vice, profaneness and demoralization than in the ordinary prisons.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various