The most potent response to profaneness is to strive for more holiness. |
The king was important in protecting Hobbes when, in 1666, the House of Commons introduced a bill against atheism and profaneness. |
Mardi-gras was ushered in with various ceremonies, offering a strange mixture of devotion and profaneness. |
But he did notice something beyond her profaneness and tumbling blond hair. |
Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly. |
This desire is for a vital or higher existence that may offer a contrast to the profaneness of a soul-numbing finitude. |