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.

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.

Wood, therefore, 409, ventures still to vary the phrase, and says, 'that all blasphemy and profaneness are offences by the common law,' and cites 2 Strange.

From The Trial of Henry Hetherington by Hetherington, Henry

But higher up, where there is no profaneness or criminality, or gross and disgusting visible intemperance, what other evils are there? 

From The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 by King, Knowles

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