Meaning of BLASPHEMOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'blasfumus
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- [adj] characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"
- [adj] grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"
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| | Synonyms: | | blue, dirty, irreverent, profane, sacrilegious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Blas"phe*mous\, a. [L. blasphemus, Gr. ?.]
Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting
anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous
person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a
blasphemous caricature. ``Blasphemous publications.''
--Porteus.
Nor from the Holy One of Heaven Refrained his tongue
blasphemous. --Milton.
Note: Formerly this word was accented on the second syllable,
as in the above example.
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| | Related Terms: | | abusive, apostate, atheistic, backsliding, calumniatory, calumnious, comminatory, contumelious, cursing, damnatory, denunciatory, dirty, disrespectful, dysphemistic, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execratory, fallen, fallen from grace, foul, fulminatory, impious, imprecatory, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, maledictory, obscene, profanatory, profane, Rabelaisian, raw, recidivist, recidivistic, recreant, renegade, ribald, risque, sacrilegious, scatologic, scurrile, scurrilous, sinful, undutiful, vile, vituperative, wicked |
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