profanity
Noun
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Noun
profanity
- (uncountable) The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
- 1910, John William Cousin, "Bunyan, John" in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
- The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.
- 1910, John William Cousin, "Bunyan, John" in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
- (countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
- He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
- French: impiété
- German: Profanität, Respektlosigkeit, Gotteslästerlichkeit
- Portuguese: profanidade
- Russian: профана́ция
- Spanish: profanidad
- French: insanité, gros mot, vulgarité, grossièreté
- German: Fluch, Obszönität , Schimpfwort
- Portuguese: profanidade
- Russian: скверносло́вие
- Spanish: lenguaje soez
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