Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
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An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.
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Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.
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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
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The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.
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The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.
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The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
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Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a b…
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Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a b…
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To rage in excess of.
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To rage in excess of.
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The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
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The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred;…
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The sin or crime of violating or profaning sacred things; the alienating to laymen, or to common purposes, what has been appropriated or consecrated…
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