profaneness

Example Sentences

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That is, because I admit that profaneness exists in the Church, therefore I consider it a token of the Church.

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

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.

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.

Does it not occur to you, what a degree of profaneness would be committed in respect of them.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

The mediæval mind was oppressed by a sense of the foreignness and profaneness of Nature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 by Various