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Antonyms for profaneness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pruh-feyn, proh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : prəˈfeɪn, proʊ- |
Definition of profaneness
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French profaner, prophaner (13c.) and directly from Latin profanare "to desecrate, render unholy, violate," from profanus "unholy, not consecrated" (see profane (adj.)). Related: Profaned; profaning.
- noun obscenity
- To some it may seem a profaneness to turn those old legends into verse.
- Extract from : « Legends of the Saxon Saints » by Aubrey de Vere
- A short view of the immorality, and profaneness of the English stage.
- Extract from : « The Library of William Congreve » by John C. Hodges
- What's the good of profaneness, evil speaking and slandering?
- Extract from : « Eugene Aram, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Malignity and profaneness must not be gratified or encouraged.
- Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Part 4 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
- Is it to profaneness or dislike of a holy life, that your company tempt you?
- Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
- Atheism, profaneness, unholiness, which are the defiance of God and all his armies.
- Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
- He never fell into the scandalous and fashionable vice of profaneness.
- Extract from : « The Loyalists of Massachusetts » by James H. Stark
- I would here by no Means be suspected of Infidelity or Profaneness.
- Extract from : « The Lovers Assistant, or, New Art of Love » by Henry Fielding
- This was the superstition of this day, and the profaneness was as great.
- Extract from : « A Righte Merrie Christmasse » by John Ashton
- Must love be ever treated with profaneness, as a mere illusion?
- Extract from : « Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men » by Anna Brownell Jameson
Synonyms for profaneness
- abomination
- affront
- atrocity
- bawdiness
- blight
- blueness
- coarseness
- curse
- dirtiness
- dirty name
- dirty word
- evil
- filthiness
- foulness
- four-letter word
- grossness
- immodesty
- impropriety
- impurity
- indecency
- indelicacy
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- lubricity
- offense
- outrage
- porn
- pornography
- profanity
- prurience
- salacity
- scatology
- scurrility
- scurrilousness
- sleaze
- smut
- smuttiness
- suggestiveness
- swearword
- vileness
- vulgarity
- vulgarness
- wrong
- X-rating
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