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n. - Profaneness by virtue of committing blasphemous behavior

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Usage examples (4)
  • Adjective : sacrilegious practices. ,a sacrilegious person
  • Now we hear little either of its economic aspects or of its sacrilegiousness; it is for us primarily a disgusting abomination, i.e., a matter of taste, of esthetics;...
  • The philosophy of those days found in these dreams mysterious and preternatural warnings of impending danger; that of ours, however, sees nothing either in the absurd...
  • The philosophy of those days found in these dreams mysterious and preternatural warnings of impending danger; that of ours, however, sees nothing either in the absurd...
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