profaneness

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In 1698 Collier produced his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage....

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Profaneness and debauchery again prevailed, and the taverns were as well filled as the churches.

From Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire by Ainsworth, William Harrison

This piece is attacked in Jeremy Collier's "Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage," 1698.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

And also An Account of the Immorality and Profaneness, which is occasioned by the Corruption of that most Noble Science in the Present Age.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

That I may be preserved from Atheism, and Infidelity, Impiety and Profaneness, and in my Addresses to thee carefully avoid Irreverence and Ostentation, Formality and odious Hypocrisy.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George