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Profaneness

noun
1.
An attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity.
2.
Unholiness by virtue of being profane.  Synonym: unsanctification.





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"Profaneness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Epist. 26. Lib. 6. commends the English Nobility for their great Application to all useful Learning, and entertaining themselves at Table with learned Discourses, when the Table-Talk of Churchmen was nothing but Ribaldry and Profaneness. In Epist. 10. Lib. 5, which he addresses to Andrelinus, he invites him to come into England, recommending it as worth his While, were it upon no other Account, than to see the charming Beauties with which this Island abounded; and in a very pleasant Manner ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus


Words linked to "Profaneness" :   unholiness, sacrilegiousness, profane, unsanctification, irreverence


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