profaneness

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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.

The domestic arrangements of such a woman as filled the capacious mind of the poet resemble, if I may say it without profaneness, those of Providence, whose under-agent she is.

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah

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

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

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.

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