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blasphemy

n.

impiety, sacrilege, profanity, irreverence, disrespect, swearing, cursing, obscenity, lewdness, reviling, scoffing, profanation, profaneness, desecration; see also curse 1, heresy.

Antonyms worship, piety*, prayer, reverence.

blasphemy, the strongest of the following terms, is used of a remark deliberately mocking or contemptuous of God or something held as sacred; profanity applies to language that makes impious use of sacred names; swearing and cursing, in this connection, both refer to the utterance of profane oaths and imprecations, the latter more particularly to the calling down of evil upon someone or something

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Another word for blasphemy

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An act of disrespect or impiety toward something regarded as sacred:
desecration, profanation, sacrilege, violation. See sacred
A profane or obscene term:
curse, epithet, expletive, oath, swearword. (Informal) cuss. See decent, sacred, words

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He also had committed blasphemy by threatening the uniqueness of God's presence.
It was blasphemy against any religion, including pagan religions.
To say that man is precisely what God made him to be is sheer blasphemy.
It was blasphemy against the spirit, or the unpardonable sin, a sin so awesomely bad that it can not be forgiven.
The blasphemy case had lasted almost exactly half of its brief life.

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