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profaneness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun profaneness has 2 senses
- profaneness(n = noun.cognition) Array - an attitude of irreverence or contempt for a divinity; Array is a kind of irreverence
- profaneness(n = noun.attribute) unsanctification - unholiness by virtue of being profane; Array is a kind of unholiness
Derived forms adjective profane4, adjective profane2
has particulars: sacrilegiousness
Derived form adjective profane1
CIDE DICTIONARY
profaneness, n.
The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
profaneness
Impiety
N impiety, sin, irreverence, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy, desecration, sacrilege, scoffing, hypocrisy, pietism, cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion, formalism, austerity, sanctimony, sanctimoniousness, pharisaism, precisianism, sabbatism, sabbatarianism, odium theologicum, sacerdotalism, bigotry blue laws, hardening, backsliding, declension, perversion, reprobation, sinner, scoffer, blasphemer, sacrilegist, sabbath breaker, worldling, hypocrite, Tartufe, Mawworm, bigot, saint, Pharisee, sabbatarian, formalist, methodist, puritan, pietist, precisian, religionist, devotee, ranter, fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of Belial, the wicked one, children of darkness, impious, irreligious, desecrating, profane, irreverent, sacrilegious, blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate, hardened, perverted, reprobate, hypocritical, canting, pietistical, sanctimonious, unctuous, pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much, bigoted, fanatical, priest-ridden, under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion, giovane santo diavolo vecchio.
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