Blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character.
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Examples for "blasphemy"
Examples for "blasphemy"
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He said the government was not taking the issue of blasphemy seriously.
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Aunt Prue gasped; that was blasphemy as far as she was concerned.
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Sir, -Thirty-fiveper cent voted No in the recent blasphemy referendum.
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Several Muslim leaders called for international action to outlaw acts of blasphemy.
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If you wanted to define blasphemy, you couldn't get a better example.
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To invade this world is not bad breeding; it is social sacrilege.
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Mr. Stockton regarded the proposed act in the light of a sacrilege.
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He is wanted for multiple cases of sacrilege and housebreakings in Manchester.
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That was the law concerning sacrilege against the trees of the gods.
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But I was in a hurry to leave the scene of sacrilege.
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But with this last desecration the Storm seemed satisfied; its fury abated.
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Erlendur surveyed the area, silently rueing the disruption, the damage, the desecration.
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The attacks were triggered by reports of the desecration of the Koran.
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No other civilised nation would allow such desecration of its loveliest estuary.
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The odor of the best Virginia would seem to me a desecration.
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We start back in horror, as if in the act of profanation.
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This manner of profanation is also described by the Lord in Matthew:
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The gentle eye of Mrs. Bullfrog scarcely rebuked me for the profanation.
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God preserve me from tempting you with ambition; that would be profanation.
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That is, indeed, the greatest profanation and dishonor of the divine name.
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The noise of your footstep seems like a profanation of holy ground.
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There are men whose looks are a profanation to any good woman.
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Weighed in this scale, what a profanation is this man guilty of!
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If that is not profanation, I should like to know what is!'
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Oh, I don't care about the profanation; but what will Teddy think?
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Don't use that word 'wife,' it is profanation; I can't bear it!
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The entertainment of the proposition of depravity is the last profligacy and profanation.
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The upholding of it before the mob of Marseilles had been a profanation.
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You are a profanation of the uniform of the United States.
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The gravest charge against you is the profanation of holy places.
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Such conduct was a profanation to the memory of Isaac and Eliza Travers.
