profaneness

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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

It is stated that Bishop Morton condemned the profaneness of the company who had disturbed the service at the church.

From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William

If any thing of this nature, or of profaneness, be crept into these poems, I am so far from defending it, that I disown it, totum hoc indictum volo.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

If I so muttered the liturgy, as to disguise its language, why did you join in so glaring a profaneness, for nearly seven years?

From Two Addresses One to the Gentlemen of Whitby and the other, to the Protestant Clergy by Rigby, Nicholas

If we listen to their conversation, virtue is praised, and vice is censured; piety is perhaps applauded, and profaneness condemned.

From A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. by Wilberforce, William