profaneness

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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

It is only by tracing them to the Roman Saturnalia that we can at all account for these grotesque sports—that extraordinary mixture of libertinism and profaneness, so long continued under Christianity.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

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

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

People have entirely left off the sin of profaneness; and, as to intemperance, there is very little of that.'

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various