blasphemy
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8.4
- noun
- /ˈblæsfəmi/
:
blasfemia
- Many consider calling the sacred text a myth to be an act of blasphemy.
- blasphemy laws
- prosecution for blasphemy
- charged with blasphemy
I'm against you know we are against blasphemy right?
- I'm against you know we are against blasphemy right?
- Now, if you remember our Christmas special, I defended the idea of blasphemy laws and I maintain that.
- I think he was actually teaching them about, you know, blasphemy and as a as a as a subject.
- Is this to do with encroaching Islamism in the country, this kind of blasphemy laws and things like that?
- Because merely saying that you don't believe in God, to me, doesn't rise to the level of blasphemy, right?
- So I, I'm just, I guess what I'm saying is we've just had MPs calling for blasphemy laws.
- He's now bringing in blasphemy laws, sending people to jail for essentially asking who their God is.
- There is no freedom of thought, there is no freedom of belief because they're always running against what may or may not be deemed blasphemy.
- They would agree that blasphemy and apostasy are, are, are killing offenses, certainly with a, if they become too pronounced.
- So, for example, blasphemies and curses were very much about this idea that words would have literal power to make something happen.
- In homicide courage in blasphemy and profanation, a certain satanic zeal.
- Yeah, for, you know, black blasphemy, you know, preaching that Jesus was who he said he was.
- The most common blasphemy is not to see the human being in the eyes before us.
- Insults, revilings, blasphemies, incentives to lusts, murders, adultery, thefts all have their origin from this.
- Oh, my God, the one I'm about to read to you and the listener is nothing short of unpatriotic blasphemy.
Examples
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Televangelist Pat Robertson said Clinton's appeal "bordered on blasphemy" because Clinton supports freedom of choice on abortion.
Academic text (1992) -
A similar effort to repeal blasphemy laws in the Netherlands was also defeated last year.
Academic text (2010) -
The most common blasphemy is not to see the human being in the eyes before us.
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My God, and I will not have that kind of blasphemy in my own home.
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Your blasphemy is a terrible sin.
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Blasphemy is a bad beginning for such a journey.
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But it does suggest irreverence, even blasphemy, toward the things that a society cares most deeply about.
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In most places, however, people simply dismiss all blasphemy as sinful and leave it at that.
Academic text (1990) -
The Anglican Church responded with a series of blasphemy prosecutions, many of them successful.
Academic text (2010) -
Venice even established a specific court to handle blasphemy cases exclusively, whose judgments could not be appealed.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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9.3
An action that shows disrespect to something holy
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9.4
An act of treating something sacred with disrespect
Showing disrespect for things people hold as sacred
Lack of respect for things people consider holy
Not showing respect for a god or religion
Antonyms
How Irreverent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Blasphemy comes from an old Greek word blasphemia, which means 'evil-speaking' and is built from parts blas- 'to harm' and pheme 'speech'. So, blasphemy is easy to remember: it means speaking in a way that harms or shows no respect to God or something holy.