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Home Dictionary Name: profanation Page: 2Cursing
Cursing. Profane searing or cursing is punishable by fine. See SWEARING....
Blasphemy
Blasphemy [fr. bl'ptw, Gk., to hurt, and fhmh, reputation; blasfhmw', to speak impiously; blasphemo, Lat., to revile, Wedgw.], an offence against God and religion, by denying to the Almighty His Being and Providence, or by contumelious reproaches of our Saviour Christ. Also, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scripture, and exposing it to contempt and ridicule. It is an indictable misdemeanour at Common Law, see Reg. v. Ramsay & Foote, (1993) 15 Cox, CC 231.In case an offender has been educated in or at any time made profession of Christianity, the statute 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 32 (c. 35 in the Revised Statutes), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law (Offences against Peace, etc.), commonly called 'The Blasphemy Act,' though it is only directed against apostasy, but is cumulative upon the common law, R. v. Carlile, (1819) 3 B. & Ald. 167, very severely punishes any person 'who shall by writing printing teaching or advised speaking, deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scripture...
Sacrilegious
Violating sacred things polluted with sacrilege involving sacrilege profane impious...
Sacrilege
The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things the alienating to laymen or to common purposes what has been appropriated or consecrated to religious persons or uses...
Sacred
Set apart by solemn religious ceremony especially in a good sense made holy set apart to religious use consecrated not profane or common as a sacred place a sacred day sacred service...
Prophane
See Profane...
Disreputable
Not reputable of bad repute not in esteem dishonorable disgracing the reputation tending to bring into disesteem as it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean the lewd and the profane...
Holy
Set apart to the service or worship of God hallowed sacred reserved from profane or common use holy vessels a holy priesthood...
goddam
A more intense and vulgar form of darned often taken as profane and offensive...
Foul spoken
Using profane scurrilous slanderous or obscene language same as foul mouthed...
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