profaneness

Example Sentences

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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.

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

The "Cavalier interest," which was but "the badge and character of countenancing profaneness, disorder, and wickedness in all places," was crushed and powerless.

From History of the English People, Volume VI Puritan England, 1642-1660; The Revolution, 1660-1683 by Green, John Richard

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