profaneness

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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 Scott, Walter, Sir

They were likewise solemnly engaged to employ their official influence and authority to put away systems that had been abjured in the National vows,—Popery, Prelacy and Erastianism, and to discourage all profaneness and ungodliness.

From The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony by Houston, Thomas

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 Stark, James H.

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

The mediæval mind was oppressed by a sense of the foreignness and profaneness of Nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various