Word Meanings - PROFANENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROFANENESS)

• Blasphemy
• Swearing
• profaneness
• impiety

Related words: (words related to PROFANENESS)

• SWEARER
  1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
• PROFANENESS
  The quality or state of being profane; especially, the use of profane language.
• SWEARING
  from Swear, v. Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.
• IMPIETY
  1. The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness. 2. An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak. Syn. -- Ungodliness; irreligion;
• BLASPHEMY
  1. An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity. Note: When used
• SWEAR
  To give evidence on oath; as, to swear to the truth of a statement; he swore against the prisoner. 3. To make an appeal to God in an irreverant manner; to use the name of God or sacred things profanely; to call upon God in imprecation; to curse.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• MISWEAR
  To wear ill. Bacon.
• FORSWEAR
  1. To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations. I . . . do forswear her. Shak. 2. To deny upon oath. Like innocence, and as serenely bold As truth, how loudly he forswears thy gold! Dryden.
• MANSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.
• OUTSWEAR
  To exceed in swearing.
• UNSWEAR
  To recant or recall, as an oath; to recall after having sworn; to abjure. J. Fletcher.
• MISSWEAR
  To swear falsely.