profaneness

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His poem on the dutchess of Grafton’s lawsuit, after having rattled awhile with Juno and Pallas, Mars and Alcides, Cassiope, Niobe, and the Propetides, Hercules, Minos, and Rhadamanthus, at last concludes its folly with profaneness.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

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

But Peter alone replies, and not only so, but condemns his profaneness, enlarges on his guilt, and solemnly declares that the gifts of God are not purchaseable with money.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.

To some it may seem a profaneness to turn those old legends into verse.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

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.