Profanation - Law Dictionary Search Results
Foul mouthed
Using language scurrilous opprobrious obscene or profane abusive as noisy foul mouthed women all shouting at once...
Dishallow
To make unholy to profane...
Disgraceful
Bringing disgrace causing shame shameful dishonorable unbecoming as profaneness is disgraceful to a man...
Desecrater
One who desecrates a profaner...
Desecrate
To divest of a sacred character or office to divert from a sacred purpose to violate the sanctity of to profane to put to an unworthy use the opposite of consecrate...
Blasphemous
Speaking or writing blasphemy uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent profane as a blasphemous person containing blasphemy as a blasphemous book a blasphemous caricature...
Scripture
Scripture. The canonical books of the Old and New Testaments. See Articles of Religion. Art. VI. All profane scoffing of theHoly Scripture, or exposing any part theeof to contempt and ridicule, is punishable by fine and imprisonment (Roscoe on Criminal Evidence, 8th Edn. p. 666); and by 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 32, a conviction of a person educated in the Christian religion of having by writing or advised speaking denied the Divine authority of Scripture entails deprivation of all offices ecclesiastical, civil, or military. See CHISTIANITY. Consult Odgers on Libel, 5th Edn. p. 485....
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