profaneness

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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

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.

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

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