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Profaneness

Profaneness. See BLASPHEMY.

blaspheme

blaspheme blas·phemed blas·phem·ing vt : to commit blasphemy against [ God] vi : to commit blasphemy

Blasphemous

Speaking or writing blasphemy uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent profane as a blasphemous person containing blasphemy as a blasphemous book a

Apostacy

or the Divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, is liable to heavy penalties under the 'Blasphemy Act.' See BLASPHEMY. Means a crime against religion consisting in the total renunciation of Christianity by one who had previously embraced

Religion

deny the Christian religion, after having been brought up in or professed it, is an offence against the Blasphemy Act (see BLASPHEMY): and the uniformity of religious worship in the Church of England is enjoined by the

H'retico comburendo, De

bishops or any other judges of any ecclesiastical courts to punish, according to his Majesty's ecclesiastical laws, 'atheism, blasphemy, heresy, or schism and other damnable doctrines and opinions by excommunication, deprivation, degradation, and other ecclesiastical censures not

Illegal contract

351; or (2) by statute, as by hire of a room for a lecture in contravention of the Blasphemy Act, Cowam v. Milbourn, (1867) LR 2 Ex 230; but see Re Bowman, (1915) 2 Ch 447, or

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